Motivational Quotes

Silence

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Young, Brigham

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Eliot, George

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Zacharia

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

Dickson, R A

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Voltaire

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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]

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