Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Silence

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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

2.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

3.

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

Blaise Pascal

4.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

5.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

6.

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Twain, Mark

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The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

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Those that are silent profess consent.

9.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

Voltaire

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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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

17.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

18.

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

Marceau, Marcel

19.

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

Seneca

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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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

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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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.

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

27.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

28.

What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.

Katz, Jonathan

29.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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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

34.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

35.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Bagehot, Walter

38.

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

Engel, Silvan

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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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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

41.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

42.

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

Plutarch

43.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo