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Silence

It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
- Engel, Silvan
Silence Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Silence

1.
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

2.
There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
Voltaire

3.
Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.
Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

4.
Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.
Sheddan, Scott

5.
You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

6.
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

7.
These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.
Crapsey, Adelaide

8.
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Syrus, Publilius

9.
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Smith, Sydney

10.
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

11.
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.

12.
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
Young, Brigham

13.
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

14.
'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
Ovid

15.
Oppression can only survive through silence.
Carmen de Monteflores

16.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy

18.
The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Hubbard, Elbert

19.
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

20.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

21.
Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
Mcginley, Phyllis

22.
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
Samuel Johnson

23.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Gaulle, Charles De

24.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

25.
Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

26.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Carlyle, Thomas

27.
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Hardy, Thomas

28.
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
Gibran, Kahlil

29.
The most profound statements are often said in silence.
Lynn Johnston

30.
I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

31.
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Dickson, R A

32.
The silent dog is the first to bite.
Proverb

33.
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
Gabirol, Ibn

34.
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.
Blaise Pascal

35.
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]
Bible

36.
A silent mouth is melodious.
Proverb, Irish

37.
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Beckett, Samuel

38.
With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)
Horace

39.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Colton, Charles Caleb

40.
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

41.
Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
Peter Minard

42.
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
Thoreau, Henry David

43.
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
Proverb, Arabian

44.
It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Engel, Silvan

45.
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

46.
Their silence is sufficient praise.
Terence

47.
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

48.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Publilius Syrus

49.
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

50.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig


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