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

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Engel, Silvan

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

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

Voltaire

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

Abraham Lincoln

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Marceau, Marcel

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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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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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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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Seneca

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

Muhammad Ali

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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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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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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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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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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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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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