Motivational Quotes

Silence

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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Best Quotes about Silence

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Those that are silent profess consent.

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

10.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

12.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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 one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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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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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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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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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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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 as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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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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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Voltaire

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

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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 a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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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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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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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 man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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