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

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Engel, Silvan

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

Those that are silent profess consent.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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

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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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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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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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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 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

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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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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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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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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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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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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

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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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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Zacharia

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

Blaise Pascal

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Voltaire

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)