Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

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

Dickson, R A

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

10.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Smith, Sydney

11.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

12.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

13.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

14.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

15.

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

16.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

17.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

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

Young, Brigham

19.

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

Zacharia

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Beaumont, Francis

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

24.

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

25.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

26.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

27.

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

28.

Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

32.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

33.

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

34.

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

Samuel Johnson

35.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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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

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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Huxley, Aldous

38.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

39.

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

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper