Motivational Quotes

Silence

The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Silence

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Seneca

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. [Proverbs 17:28]

Bible

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

10.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

11.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

12.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

14.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

15.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Eliot, George

17.

Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

18.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

Delint, Charles

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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

24.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Smith, Sydney

25.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Beckett, Samuel

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

27.

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

28.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

29.

These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

30.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

31.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

O'Malley, Austin

32.

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

35.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marceau, Marcel

36.

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

37.

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Twain, Mark

38.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

39.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

40.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says,'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.'A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blair

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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

43.

What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.

Katz, Jonathan

44.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Blaise Pascal

45.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali

46.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

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A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?

Richards, Edward Hersey

48.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

49.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish