Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence is the virtue of fools.

- Sir Francis Bacon

Best Quotes about Silence

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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

Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Smith, Sydney

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Zacharia

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Ausonius

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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

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

Voltaire

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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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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Plutarch

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

John Tillotson

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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

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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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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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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.

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Dickson, R A

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.