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Silence

Silence is the virtue of fools.
- Sir Francis Bacon
Silence Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Silence

1.
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
Thoreau, Henry David

2.
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
Mcginley, Phyllis

3.
Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

4.
Oppression can only survive through silence.
Carmen de Monteflores

5.
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali

6.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch

7.
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

8.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Beaumont, Francis

9.
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucius

10.
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

11.
Not to ask is not be denied.
Dryden, John

12.
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates of Chalcedon

13.
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Samuel Johnson

14.
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

15.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Carlyle, Thomas

16.
Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

17.
Those that are silent profess consent.

18.
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

19.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

20.
Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
Mcginley, Phyllis

21.
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

22.
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

23.
Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

24.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

25.
The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Lynn Johnston

26.
It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Engel, Silvan

27.
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Syrus, Publilius

28.
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
Seneca

29.
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
Disraeli, Benjamin

30.
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

31.
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?
Marceau, Marcel

32.
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

33.
I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

34.
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn

35.
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
Gibran, Kahlil

36.
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy

37.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
Bagehot, Walter

38.
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
Proverb, Arabian

39.
There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
Voltaire

40.
'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
Ovid

41.
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

42.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
William Shakespeare

43.
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

44.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

45.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
Coolidge, Calvin

46.
Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.
Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.
Zacharia

48.
Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

49.
These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.
Crapsey, Adelaide

50.
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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