Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

Musonnius

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

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

Engel, Silvan

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

Dickson, R A

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

Samuel Johnson

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

Muhammad Ali

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.

10.

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

Beckett, Samuel

11.

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

12.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Smith, Sydney

15.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

18.

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

John Tillotson

19.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

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

Ausonius

21.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

22.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

23.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

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

25.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Plutarch

30.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

31.

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

Beaumont, Francis

32.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

Those that are silent profess consent.

34.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

35.

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

36.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

37.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

38.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

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

40.

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

Abraham Lincoln

41.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

42.

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

43.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

44.

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

William Penn

45.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

46.

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

47.

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

Blaise Pascal

48.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

49.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

50.

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