Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Marceau, Marcel

Best Quotes about Silence

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Abraham Lincoln

The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.

Giles, Henry

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Plutarch

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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

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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

Peter Minard

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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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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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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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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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

31.

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

Ausonius

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An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Bagehot, Walter

33.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Samuel Johnson

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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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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Seneca

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Young, Brigham

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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Xenocrates of Chalcedon