Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

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Best Quotes about Silence

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

Young, Brigham

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

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Those that are silent profess consent.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

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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It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Engel, Silvan

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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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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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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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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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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 a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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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

20.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

21.

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

Muhammad Ali

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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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dickson, R A

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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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

27.

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

Blaise Pascal

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Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

30.

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 shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Beckett, Samuel

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Voltaire

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

44.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

William Shakespeare

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

49.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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