Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

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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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Engel, Silvan

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

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

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

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

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Plutarch

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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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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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Musonnius

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Chopra, Deepak

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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