Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

Twain, Mark

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Brigham

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

Engel, Silvan

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

Dante Alighieri

10.

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

Dickson, R A

11.

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

12.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

13.

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

Beaumont, Francis

14.

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

15.

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

Plutarch

16.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

17.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

18.

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

Muhammad Ali

19.

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

Seneca

20.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

21.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

22.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Abraham Lincoln

24.

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

Bagehot, Walter

25.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

26.

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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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

28.

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

Zacharia

29.

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

30.

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

William Penn

31.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

32.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

35.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

36.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

42.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Marceau, Marcel

45.

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

46.

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

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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 the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

50.

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

John Tillotson