Motivational Quotes

Silence

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Smith, Sydney

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 taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Ausonius

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

Samuel Johnson

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

John Tillotson

10.

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

Marceau, Marcel

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Plutarch

13.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

14.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

15.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

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

17.

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

Dickson, R A

18.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

19.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

20.

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

21.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

22.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

23.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

24.

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

Proverb, Arabian

25.

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

Zacharia

26.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

27.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Blaise Pascal

32.

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

Bagehot, Walter

33.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

37.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Voltaire

38.

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.

39.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

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

41.

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

O'Malley, Austin

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Young, Brigham

45.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio