Motivational Quotes

Silence

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Zacharia

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

John Tillotson

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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

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

Bible

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

10.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

11.

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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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Plutarch

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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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 a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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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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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

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

23.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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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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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

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

27.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

28.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

29.

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

Engel, Silvan

30.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Seneca

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Blaise Pascal

43.

Those that are silent profess consent.

44.

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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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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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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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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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 to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John