Motivational Quotes

Silence

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Silence

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Ausonius

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

John Tillotson

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

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Young, Brigham

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

Gibran, Kahlil

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

10.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

11.

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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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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

15.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

21.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Dickson, R A

24.

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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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

31.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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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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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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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Zacharia

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

Voltaire

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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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

45.

Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

46.

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

Seneca