Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Silence

What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.

Katz, Jonathan

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Plutarch

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

Dickson, R A

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

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

10.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

Proverb, Arabian

12.

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

Hubbard, Kin

13.

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

Young, Brigham

14.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

17.

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

18.

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

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

20.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

21.

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

Abraham Lincoln

22.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

23.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

24.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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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

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Beaumont, Francis

31.

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

Marceau, Marcel

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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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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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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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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

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

William Shakespeare

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

42.

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

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

Musonnius

44.

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

45.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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 silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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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