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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
- Syrus, Publilius
Silence Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Silence

1.
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali

2.
Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

3.
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

4.
Not to ask is not be denied.
Dryden, John

5.
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

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

8.
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Smith, Sydney

9.
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
Gibran, Kahlil

10.
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Hardy, Thomas

11.
With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)
Horace

12.
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
Proverb, Arabian

13.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings

14.
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Dickson, R A

15.
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare

16.
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
Burns, Robert

17.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch

18.
Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.
Sheddan, Scott

19.
Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

20.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

21.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Carlyle, Thomas

22.
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
John Tillotson

23.
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

24.
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
Helprin, Mark

25.
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy

26.
Silence is more musical than any song.
Christina Rossetti

27.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

29.
Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

30.
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]
Bible

31.
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucius

32.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
Bagehot, Walter

33.
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

34.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
Guevara, Che

35.
A silent mouth is melodious.
Proverb, Irish

36.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
Coolidge, Calvin

37.
It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Engel, Silvan

38.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

39.
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

40.
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.

41.
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
Ausonius

42.
There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
Voltaire

43.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Fraquhar Tupper

44.
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Syrus, Publilius

45.
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
Young, Brigham

46.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Colton, Charles Caleb

47.
There are times when silence has the loudest voice.
Brownlow, Leroy

48.
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
Disraeli, Benjamin

49.
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Beckett, Samuel

50.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln


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