Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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

Voltaire

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

Plutarch

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bagehot, Walter

11.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bible

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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

19.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

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

Zacharia

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Beaumont, Francis

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Proverb, Arabian

33.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

34.

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

Dickson, R A

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Marceau, Marcel

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

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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