Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

William Penn

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dickson, R A

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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

10.

The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.

Giles, Henry

15.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

16.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

17.

Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

18.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

19.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

20.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

21.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Smith, Sydney

22.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

23.

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

24.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

25.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

26.

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

27.

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

Plutarch

28.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

29.

Those that are silent profess consent.

30.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

Bible

34.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

37.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

38.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

39.

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

O'Malley, Austin

40.

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

Engel, Silvan

41.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

42.

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

43.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

44.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

John Tillotson

48.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

49.

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

50.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin