Motivational Quotes

Silence

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

2.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

3.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

4.

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

William Penn

5.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

6.

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

Bagehot, Walter

7.

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

8.

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

Shakespeare, William

9.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

12.

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

13.

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

14.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

15.

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

Beaumont, Francis

16.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

17.

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

Abraham Lincoln

18.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

19.

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

20.

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

Plutarch

21.

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

O'Malley, Austin

22.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

23.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

24.

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

25.

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

26.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

28.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

31.

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

Seneca

32.

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

Proverb, Arabian

33.

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

Musonnius

34.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

35.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

36.

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

37.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

38.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

39.

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

Voltaire

40.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

41.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

42.

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

Muhammad Ali

43.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

44.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

45.

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

46.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

47.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

48.

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

Young, Brigham

49.

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

50.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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