Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Silence

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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 the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Zacharia

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Ausonius

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Voltaire

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

Plutarch

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

William Penn

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

Beaumont, Francis

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