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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
- Seneca
Silence Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Silence

1.
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
John Tillotson

2.
Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

3.
Silence is more musical than any song.
Christina Rossetti

4.
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

5.
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy

6.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
Blaise Pascal

7.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Carlyle, Thomas

8.
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
Proverb, Arabian

9.
Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. Attanasio

10.
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
Stanislaw J. Lec

11.
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

12.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

13.
Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.
Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

14.
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]
Bible

15.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Colton, Charles Caleb

16.
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

17.
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

18.
There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
Voltaire

19.
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
Disraeli, Benjamin

20.
It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Engel, Silvan

21.
Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

22.
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

23.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
Bagehot, Walter

24.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

25.
Oppression can only survive through silence.
Carmen de Monteflores

26.
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
Gibran, Kahlil

27.
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

28.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Gaulle, Charles De

29.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Carlyle, Thomas

30.
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

31.
The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Lynn Johnston

32.
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Syrus, Publilius

33.
These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.
Crapsey, Adelaide

34.
'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
Ovid

35.
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
Marceau, Marcel

36.
I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

37.
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
Gabirol, Ibn

38.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

39.
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

40.
Their silence is sufficient praise.
Terence

41.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

42.
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
Young, Brigham

43.
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Smith, Sydney

44.
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
Mcginley, Phyllis

45.
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
O'Malley, Austin

46.
Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
Mcginley, Phyllis

47.
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates of Chalcedon

48.
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

49.
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri

50.
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


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