Motivational Quotes

Silence

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Silence

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hubbard, Kin

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Beckett, Samuel

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Dickson, R A

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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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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ausonius

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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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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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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Those that are silent profess consent.

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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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.

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?

Richards, Edward Hersey

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

Zacharia

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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

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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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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

William Penn

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Engel, Silvan

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Plutarch

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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