Motivational Quotes

Silence

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

Marceau, Marcel

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Ausonius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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

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

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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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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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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

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Voltaire

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Muhammad Ali

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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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A silent mouth is melodious.