Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Dante Alighieri

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

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

Dickson, R A

Those that are silent profess consent.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Musonnius

11.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

12.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

13.

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

Blaise Pascal

14.

These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

15.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

16.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Proverb, Arabian

18.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

20.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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

Samuel Johnson

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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.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

27.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Hubbard, Kin

32.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

33.

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

Engel, Silvan

34.

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

Ausonius

35.

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

John Tillotson

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

O'Malley, Austin

37.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

Muhammad Ali

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

William Penn

42.

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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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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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

45.

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.

Voltaire

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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