Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Dickson, R A

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

Young, Brigham

2.

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

3.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

4.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

5.

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

Voltaire

6.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

7.

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

Zacharia

8.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

9.

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?

Richards, Edward Hersey

10.

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

11.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

15.

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

16.

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

Dante Alighieri

17.

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

Dickson, R A

18.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

19.

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

20.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

21.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

22.

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

Engel, Silvan

23.

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

John Tillotson

24.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

Those that are silent profess consent.

26.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

27.

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

Smith, Sydney

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Abraham Lincoln

30.

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

Muhammad Ali

31.

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

Hubbard, Kin

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

35.

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

36.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

37.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

38.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

39.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

40.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Ausonius

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Abraham Lincoln

48.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

49.

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