Motivational Quotes

Silence

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Smith, Sydney

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

Muhammad Ali

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Abraham Lincoln

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Plutarch

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

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Voltaire

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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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