Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

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Best Quotes about Silence

1.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

2.

Those that are silent profess consent.

3.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

4.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

5.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

6.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

7.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

8.

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

Bible

9.

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

Musonnius

10.

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

Bagehot, Walter

11.

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

Syrus, Publilius

12.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

13.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

14.

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

15.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

16.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

17.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

18.

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

Seneca

19.

What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.

Katz, Jonathan

20.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

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

22.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

24.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

25.

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

26.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

27.

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

28.

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

Beckett, Samuel

29.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

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

Marceau, Marcel

31.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

32.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

34.

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

Plutarch

35.

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

36.

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

37.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

38.

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.

39.

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

William Penn

40.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

41.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

42.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, Arabian

45.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

46.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

47.

Their silence is sufficient praise.