Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Silence

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

William Shakespeare

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

John Tillotson

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

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

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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

Bible

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Proverb, Arabian

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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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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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

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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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

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

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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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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

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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

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

Ausonius

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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

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

Plutarch

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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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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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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

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

Marceau, Marcel

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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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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

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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