Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Zacharia

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

Seneca

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

Ausonius

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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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

11.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

12.

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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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

15.

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

John Tillotson

16.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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

Beaumont, Francis

23.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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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

26.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

29.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

30.

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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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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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

33.

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

Musonnius

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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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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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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

38.

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

Dickson, R A

39.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

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

William Shakespeare

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

Marceau, Marcel

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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