Motivational Quotes

Silence

Oppression can only survive through silence.

- Carmen de Monteflores

Best Quotes about Silence

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

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

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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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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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Marceau, Marcel

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Musonnius

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Seneca

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Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Chopra, Deepak

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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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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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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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dickson, R A

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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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 virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon