Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

Proverb, Arabian

2.

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

3.

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

5.

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

Engel, Silvan

6.

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

Seneca

7.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

8.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

9.

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

Syrus, Publilius

10.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

11.

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

12.

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

Abraham Lincoln

13.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

14.

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

Marceau, Marcel

15.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

16.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

17.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

18.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

19.

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

20.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

21.

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

22.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

23.

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

24.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

28.

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

29.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

30.

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

Abraham Lincoln

31.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

32.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

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

34.

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

35.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Smith, Sydney

36.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

37.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

38.

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