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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
- Burns, Robert
Silence Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Silence

1.
Not to ask is not be denied.
Dryden, John

2.
'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
Ovid

3.
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy

4.
Those that are silent profess consent.

5.
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

6.
There are times when silence has the loudest voice.
Brownlow, Leroy

7.
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

8.
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucius

9.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Fraquhar Tupper

10.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings

11.
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

12.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

13.
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
Stanislaw J. Lec

14.
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

15.
I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

16.
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
Gabirol, Ibn

17.
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare

18.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
Coolidge, Calvin

20.
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Samuel Johnson

21.
With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)
Horace

22.
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

23.
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Hardy, Thomas

24.
Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

25.
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
O'Malley, Austin

26.
It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
Hubbard, Kin

27.
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

28.
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
Churchill, Winston

29.
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

30.
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
Ausonius

31.
A silent mouth is melodious.
Proverb, Irish

32.
Oppression can only survive through silence.
Carmen de Monteflores

33.
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri

34.
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Meister Eckhart

35.
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

36.
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

37.
I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

38.
Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. Attanasio

39.
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Smith, Sydney

40.
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]
Bible

41.
Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.
Sheddan, Scott

42.
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
Thoreau, Henry David

43.
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Beckett, Samuel

44.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
Blaise Pascal

45.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Colton, Charles Caleb

46.
The silent dog is the first to bite.
Proverb

47.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
William Shakespeare

48.
Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.
The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Lynn Johnston

50.
The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.
Musonnius


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