Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Hubbard, Elbert

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

10.

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

11.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

12.

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

13.

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

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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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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Huxley, Aldous

16.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

17.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

18.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

20.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

21.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

22.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

23.

Those that are silent profess consent.

24.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

25.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Chopra, Deepak

26.

Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

27.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

28.

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

Muhammad Ali

29.

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

Beckett, Samuel

30.

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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

32.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

35.

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

36.

Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

Shakespeare, William

37.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

38.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.

William Shakespeare

39.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

40.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

41.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

42.

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

Marceau, Marcel

43.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

46.

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Gibran, Kahlil

47.

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

Illich, Ivan

48.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

Plutarch

50.

It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Engel, Silvan