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

1.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

2.

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

3.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

4.

Those that are silent profess consent.

5.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

6.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

7.

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.

8.

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

Ausonius

9.

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

Proverb, Arabian

10.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

11.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

12.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

13.

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

14.

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

Dante Alighieri

15.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

16.

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

17.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Seneca

18.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

19.

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

Abraham Lincoln

20.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

23.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Hubbard, Kin

25.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

26.

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

27.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

28.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

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

John Tillotson

30.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

31.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

32.

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

Young, Brigham

33.

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

O'Malley, Austin

34.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

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

38.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

39.

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

Samuel Johnson

40.

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

Marceau, Marcel

41.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

42.

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

43.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

44.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

45.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

46.

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

Bagehot, Walter

47.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

48.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

49.

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

50.

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

Abraham Lincoln