Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Silence

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

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

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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

10.

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

11.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

12.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

13.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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

17.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

18.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

19.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

20.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

21.

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

22.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads on like a gray vegetation.

Arp, Jean

23.

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

24.

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

Seneca

25.

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

O'Malley, Austin

26.

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

Marceau, Marcel

27.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Ausonius

29.

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

30.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

31.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

32.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

33.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Young, Brigham

34.

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

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

37.

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

Muhammad Ali

38.

Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

Zacharia

39.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

40.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

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

Hubbard, Kin

42.

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

Beckett, Samuel

43.

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

44.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, Arabian