Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Blaise Pascal

Best Quotes about Silence

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

Muhammad Ali

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

William Shakespeare

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

Blaise Pascal

10.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Voltaire

15.

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

Dickson, R A

16.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

17.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

18.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

19.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

20.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

21.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

23.

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

24.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

25.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

26.

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

Syrus, Publilius

27.

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

28.

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

Ausonius

29.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Huxley, Aldous

30.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

32.

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

33.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

34.

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

35.

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

John Tillotson

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

38.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

39.

Those that are silent profess consent.

40.

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

Proverb, Arabian

41.

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

42.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

43.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

44.

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

Zacharia

45.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

46.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

47.

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

Musonnius

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Abraham Lincoln