Motivational Quotes

Silence

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Silence

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

Coolidge, Calvin

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Brigham

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Syrus, Publilius

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Plutarch

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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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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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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

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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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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

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

Musonnius

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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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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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

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

Abraham Lincoln

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Shakespeare, William

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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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

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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

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Disraeli, Benjamin