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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
- Plutarch
Silence Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Silence

1.
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.
Huxley, Aldous

2.
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

3.
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
Gabirol, Ibn

4.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
Bagehot, Walter

5.
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
John Tillotson

6.
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Samuel Johnson

7.
Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

8.
A silent mouth is melodious.
Proverb, Irish

9.
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
Stanislaw J. Lec

10.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
Blaise Pascal

11.
Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.
Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

12.
Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. Attanasio

13.
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

14.
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
Ausonius

15.
Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

16.
Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.
Sheddan, Scott

17.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch

18.
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

19.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

20.
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

21.
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

22.
With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)
Horace

23.
Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

24.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
Coolidge, Calvin

25.
'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
Ovid

26.
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

27.
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Syrus, Publilius

28.
It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
Hubbard, Kin

29.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Sir Francis Bacon

30.
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
Gibran, Kahlil

31.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Gaulle, Charles De

32.
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn

33.
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

34.
The silent dog is the first to bite.
Proverb

35.
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
O'Malley, Austin

36.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Carlyle, Thomas

37.
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]
Bible

38.
Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.
I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

40.
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
Burns, Robert

41.
I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

42.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Publilius Syrus

43.
The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Hubbard, Elbert

44.
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

45.
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

46.
Those that are silent profess consent.

47.
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
Young, Brigham

48.
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

49.
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy

50.
The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.
Musonnius


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