Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Beckett, Samuel

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Zacharia

Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Beckett, Samuel

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

Dickson, R A

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

10.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

11.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

12.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

13.

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

Proverb, Arabian

14.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

15.

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

Young, Brigham

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

18.

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

19.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

20.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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

22.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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

24.

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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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

Bible

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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

29.

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

30.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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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.

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

Voltaire

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

35.

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

Ausonius

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Plutarch

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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

42.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

44.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Seneca

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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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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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