Best Quotes about Silence
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
O'Malley, Austin
The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.
Musonnius
Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Engel, Silvan
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
Bagehot, Walter
With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)
Horace
Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.
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
Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.
Zacharia
Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.
Sheddan, Scott
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
Churchill, Winston
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
Blaise Pascal
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
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
You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.
These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.
Crapsey, Adelaide
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy
Their silence is sufficient praise.
Terence
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Sir Francis Bacon
Not to ask is not be denied.
Dryden, John
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
Disraeli, Benjamin
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
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.
Oppression can only survive through silence.
Carmen de Monteflores
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Syrus, Publilius
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Colton, Charles Caleb
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.
Helprin, Mark
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Meister Eckhart
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
William Shakespeare
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Beckett, Samuel
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Dickson, R A
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
Thoreau, Henry David
There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
Voltaire
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
Guevara, Che
Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Publilius Syrus
A silent mouth is melodious.
Proverb, Irish
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
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
Seneca
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
Gibran, Kahlil
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
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
Gabirol, Ibn
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Hubbard, Elbert
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Carlyle, Thomas
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