Motivational Quotes

Silence

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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Best Quotes about Silence

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

Bagehot, Walter

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Marceau, Marcel

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

Seneca

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

Beaumont, Francis

Those that are silent profess consent.

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

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

10.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

11.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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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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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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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 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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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 have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

24.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Samuel Johnson

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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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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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Muhammad Ali

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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

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Voltaire

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

Blaise Pascal

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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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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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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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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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