Motivational Quotes

Silence

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

- Thomas Hardy

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

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

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

10.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

11.

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

Engel, Silvan

12.

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

13.

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

Marceau, Marcel

14.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Samuel Johnson

16.

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

Zacharia

17.

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

18.

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

Muhammad Ali

19.

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

Abraham Lincoln

20.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

21.

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

Voltaire

22.

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

Hubbard, Kin

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Blaise Pascal

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

29.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

30.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

31.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

32.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

34.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

35.

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

Bible

36.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

37.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

38.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

39.

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

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

42.

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

Dante Alighieri

43.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

44.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

45.

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

46.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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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

50.

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