Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Silence

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

William Penn

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

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

Muhammad Ali

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

10.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

11.

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

Marceau, Marcel

12.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

13.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

15.

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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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

17.

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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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

19.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Young, Brigham

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

22.

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

23.

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

Dickson, R A

24.

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

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

33.

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

34.

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

Seneca

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Ausonius

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Zacharia

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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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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.