Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Beaumont, Francis

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

2.

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

Engel, Silvan

3.

Those that are silent profess consent.

4.

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

5.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

6.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

7.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

8.

The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.

Giles, Henry

9.

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

10.

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

Hubbard, Kin

11.

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

Marceau, Marcel

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

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

Zacharia

14.

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

Bagehot, Walter

15.

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

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Beckett, Samuel

21.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

22.

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

Muhammad Ali

23.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

25.

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.

26.

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

Syrus, Publilius

27.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

28.

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

Ausonius

29.

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

30.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

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

Samuel Johnson

35.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

36.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

37.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

38.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

39.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

40.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

41.

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

William Penn

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.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

44.

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

John Tillotson

45.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

46.

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

47.

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

Musonnius

48.

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

Abraham Lincoln

49.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

50.

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

Seneca

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