Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Blaise Pascal

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

2.

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

Seneca

3.

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

4.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

5.

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

6.

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

Ausonius

7.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

8.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

9.

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

Beckett, Samuel

10.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

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

Zacharia

13.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

14.

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

15.

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

John Tillotson

16.

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

Proverb, Arabian

17.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

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

O'Malley, Austin

19.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

20.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

21.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

22.

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

Beaumont, Francis

23.

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

24.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

25.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

27.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

28.

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

29.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

30.

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

Marceau, Marcel

31.

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

Plutarch

32.

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

Blaise Pascal

33.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

34.

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

35.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

37.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

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

39.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

40.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

41.

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

42.

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

Dante Alighieri

43.

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

44.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

45.

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

Abraham Lincoln

46.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

47.

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