Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence is the virtue of fools.

- Sir Francis Bacon

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

2.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

3.

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

Hubbard, Kin

4.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

5.

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

Shakespeare, William

6.

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

7.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

8.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

9.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

11.

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

Bagehot, Walter

12.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

13.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

14.

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

Musonnius

15.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

16.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

17.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Beaumont, Francis

19.

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

Engel, Silvan

20.

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

21.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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.

24.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

25.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

26.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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.

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

Marceau, Marcel

29.

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

30.

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

Dickson, R A

31.

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

32.

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

Plutarch

33.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

35.

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

Proverb, Arabian

36.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

40.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

41.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

42.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

43.

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

44.

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Beckett, Samuel

45.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

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

Dante Alighieri

47.

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

48.

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

Abraham Lincoln

49.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

50.

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

Voltaire