Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Zacharia

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Muhammad Ali

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Zacharia

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

Voltaire

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

25.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

27.

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

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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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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 more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

32.

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

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

Bible

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

39.

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

Dickson, R A

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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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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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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

43.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Eliot, George

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

Abraham Lincoln

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