Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Silence

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

William Shakespeare

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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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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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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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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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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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

23.

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

Dickson, R A

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

Engel, Silvan

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Smith, Sydney

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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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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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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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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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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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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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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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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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln