Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

10.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

11.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

12.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

13.

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

14.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

15.

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

Plutarch

16.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

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

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 the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

20.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

Abraham Lincoln

22.

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

Beckett, Samuel

23.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

24.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

25.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Seneca

26.

Those that are silent profess consent.

27.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

28.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

29.

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

30.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

31.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

36.

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

Hubbard, Kin

37.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

38.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

39.

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

Zacharia

40.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

41.

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

Beaumont, Francis

42.

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

43.

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

Muhammad Ali

44.

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

45.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Young, Brigham

46.

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

Engel, Silvan

47.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

48.

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

Voltaire

49.

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

Abraham Lincoln

50.

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

Ausonius

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