Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

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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 more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

3.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

4.

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

5.

Those that are silent profess consent.

6.

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

Smith, Sydney

7.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

12.

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

Hubbard, Kin

13.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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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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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

17.

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Proverb, Arabian

18.

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

19.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

20.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

21.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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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

23.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

24.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

25.

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

26.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

27.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

28.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

29.

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

Bagehot, Walter

30.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

33.

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

34.

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

Muhammad Ali

35.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

37.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

38.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

42.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Coolidge, Calvin

44.

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

Marceau, Marcel

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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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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

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

John Tillotson

49.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Carlyle, Thomas