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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
- Beckett, Samuel
Silence Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Silence

1.
I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

2.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Gaulle, Charles De

3.
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy

4.
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn

5.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
Bagehot, Walter

6.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

7.
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

8.
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
Disraeli, Benjamin

9.
It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
Hubbard, Kin

10.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Beaumont, Francis

11.
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

12.
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Meister Eckhart

13.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
Blaise Pascal

14.
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates of Chalcedon

15.
These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.
Crapsey, Adelaide

16.
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

17.
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

18.
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

19.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
Guevara, Che

20.
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
John Tillotson

21.
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

22.
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Smith, Sydney

23.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

24.
Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

25.
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Dickson, R A

26.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Fraquhar Tupper

27.
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
Stanislaw J. Lec

28.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
William Shakespeare

29.
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

30.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
Coolidge, Calvin

31.
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
Thoreau, Henry David

32.
Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
Shakespeare, William

33.
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Beckett, Samuel

34.
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
Ausonius

35.
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare

36.
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Hardy, Thomas

37.
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
Young, Brigham

38.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings

39.
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

40.
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

41.
The silent dog is the first to bite.
Proverb

42.
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
Burns, Robert

43.
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

44.
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]
Bible

45.
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

46.
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali

47.
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

48.
You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

49.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch

50.
Not to ask is not be denied.
Dryden, John


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