Motivational Quotes

Silence

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

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Best Quotes about Silence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ausonius

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

10.

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

Samuel Johnson

11.

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

12.

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Voltaire

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

16.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Plutarch

18.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

19.

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

Dante Alighieri

20.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

21.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

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

Marceau, Marcel

23.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

26.

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

Hubbard, Kin

27.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

28.

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

Engel, Silvan

29.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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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

32.

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

33.

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

Dickson, R A

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

40.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

41.

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

O'Malley, Austin

42.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

43.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Zacharia

45.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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