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.

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Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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

Muhammad Ali

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

10.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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.

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

Proverb, Arabian

13.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Zacharia

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Ausonius

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Young, Brigham

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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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Those that are silent profess consent.

23.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

O'Malley, Austin

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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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.

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Beaumont, Francis

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

Plutarch

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

37.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

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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

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Eliot, George

44.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 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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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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