Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Dante Alighieri

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

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Gabirol, Ibn

Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Plutarch

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

16.

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

Young, Brigham

18.

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

John Tillotson

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

20.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Dickson, R A

22.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

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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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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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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

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Engel, Silvan

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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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

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark