Motivational Quotes

Silence

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

- Meister Eckhart

Best Quotes about Silence

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

William Shakespeare

The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

Those that are silent profess consent.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

11.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

12.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

16.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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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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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

22.

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

Blaise Pascal

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Ausonius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

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

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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

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

Plutarch

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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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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Smith, Sydney

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

44.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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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