Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Syrus, Publilius

X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Dickson, R A

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

Zacharia

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

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Plutarch

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

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

John Tillotson

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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

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.

Boehme, Jacob

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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Engel, Silvan

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Blaise Pascal

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De