Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence is the virtue of fools.

- Sir Francis Bacon

Best Quotes about Silence

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marceau, Marcel

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Zacharia

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

Dante Alighieri

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

10.

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

11.

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

12.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

13.

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

Muhammad Ali

14.

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

William Penn

15.

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

Musonnius

16.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

17.

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

18.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

21.

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

22.

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

Seneca

23.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

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

27.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

28.

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

29.

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

Abraham Lincoln

30.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

31.

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

32.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

33.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

34.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

35.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

36.

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

37.

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

Dickson, R A

38.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

O'Malley, Austin

40.

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

41.

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

John Tillotson

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Smith, Sydney

45.

Those that are silent profess consent.

46.

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

Bagehot, Walter

47.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis