Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

2.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

3.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

4.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

5.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

6.

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

Muhammad Ali

7.

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

8.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

9.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

10.

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

11.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

12.

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

Dante Alighieri

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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

18.

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

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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

Blaise Pascal

20.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

21.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

22.

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

23.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

24.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Dickson, R A

26.

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

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

29.

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

Beckett, Samuel

30.

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

Marceau, Marcel

31.

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

Young, Brigham

32.

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

Hubbard, Kin

33.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

34.

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

35.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

37.

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

Zacharia

38.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

39.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

40.

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

41.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

42.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

43.

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

Ausonius

44.

It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Engel, Silvan

45.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

46.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

47.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

48.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

49.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

50.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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