Motivational Quotes

Silence

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Silence

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Those that are silent profess consent.

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

10.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

11.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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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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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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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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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

21.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

26.

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

27.

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

Musonnius

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

William Shakespeare

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

Marceau, Marcel

33.

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

Syrus, Publilius

34.

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

Blaise Pascal

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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

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

Ausonius

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

42.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Zacharia

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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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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Dickson, R A

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

Plutarch

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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