Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Bagehot, Walter

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

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

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Beckett, Samuel

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Voltaire

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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 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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Blaise Pascal

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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

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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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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.

22.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

23.

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

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

John Tillotson

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Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Muhammad Ali

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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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

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Plutarch

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

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

Musonnius

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Smith, Sydney

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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

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

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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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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

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Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von