Motivational Quotes

Silence

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Silence

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Proverb, Arabian

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Engel, Silvan

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Blaise Pascal

10.

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

William Penn

11.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

12.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

13.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

14.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

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

Dickson, R A

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Abraham Lincoln

20.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

21.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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

24.

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

Seneca

25.

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

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

Muhammad Ali

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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

28.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

29.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

30.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

31.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

32.

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

Zacharia

33.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

34.

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

Dante Alighieri

35.

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

Smith, Sydney

36.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

37.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

39.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

42.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Musonnius

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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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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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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marceau, Marcel

47.

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

48.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.