Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Dickson, R A

Best Quotes about Silence

Those that are silent profess consent.

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

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

Beckett, Samuel

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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

John Tillotson

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Zacharia

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Blaise Pascal

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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.

26.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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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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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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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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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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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Dickson, R A

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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