Motivational Quotes

Silence

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

- William Penn

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

2.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Smith, Sydney

6.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

7.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

8.

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

9.

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

10.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

11.

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

Dante Alighieri

14.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

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

Zacharia

16.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

17.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

18.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

19.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

20.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

23.

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

Proverb, Arabian

24.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

25.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

27.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

28.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

29.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

30.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

31.

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

32.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Dickson, R A

36.

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

O'Malley, Austin

37.

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.

38.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

39.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

40.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

41.

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

42.

The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

43.

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

Seneca

44.

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

Syrus, Publilius

45.

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

46.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

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

48.

These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

49.

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

Abraham Lincoln

50.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart