Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Blaise Pascal

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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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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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

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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

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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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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Shakespeare, William

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Voltaire

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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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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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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 taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.