Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Seneca

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

William Penn

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

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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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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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

Musonnius

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Ausonius

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

Zacharia

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Voltaire

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