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

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hubbard, Kin

Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Ausonius

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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 more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Engel, Silvan

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

Plutarch

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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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Musonnius

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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

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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

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

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

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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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.

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Zacharia

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare