Motivational Quotes

Silence

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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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 is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Plutarch

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Dickson, R A

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

Marceau, Marcel

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Zacharia

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare