Motivational Quotes

Silence

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Plutarch

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

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

Abraham Lincoln

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Those that are silent profess consent.

10.

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

Bagehot, Walter

11.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

12.

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Musonnius

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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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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

16.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Young, Brigham

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He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Ausonius

19.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

22.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

Voltaire

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

30.

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

Abraham Lincoln

32.

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

33.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

John Tillotson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Dante Alighieri

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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