Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence is a text easy to misread.

- A. A. Attanasio

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Zacharia

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

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

Seneca

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

Young, Brigham

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Marceau, Marcel

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Blaise Pascal

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dickson, R A

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

Plutarch

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Musonnius

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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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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

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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

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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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

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Engel, Silvan

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

William Penn

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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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

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

Ausonius

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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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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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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy