Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Silence

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

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

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Zacharia

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Seneca

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

Young, Brigham

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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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

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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.

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

Plutarch

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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Dickson, R A

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence