Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

- Young, Brigham

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

10.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

11.

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

Beckett, Samuel

12.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

16.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

17.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

18.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

19.

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

20.

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

Muhammad Ali

21.

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

Hubbard, Kin

22.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

23.

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

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

25.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

26.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

27.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

28.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

29.

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

Proverb, Arabian

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Young, Brigham

33.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

35.

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