Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Bagehot, Walter

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

2.

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

O'Malley, Austin

3.

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

Marceau, Marcel

4.

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

5.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

6.

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

William Shakespeare

7.

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

Hubbard, Kin

8.

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Gibran, Kahlil

9.

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

Abraham Lincoln

10.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

13.

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

William Penn

14.

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

15.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

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

18.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

19.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

20.

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

24.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

25.

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

Voltaire

26.

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

Samuel Johnson

27.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

28.

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

29.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

30.

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

Dickson, R A

31.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

32.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

33.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

34.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

35.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

36.

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

Smith, Sydney

37.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

38.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

39.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

41.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Arabian

44.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

45.

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

Beckett, Samuel

46.

Those that are silent profess consent.

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

49.

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

Ausonius

50.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis