Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Silence

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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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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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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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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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

15.

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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'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

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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

18.

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

19.

Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

20.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

23.

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 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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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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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

27.

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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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

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

32.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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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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A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

40.

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

Illich, Ivan

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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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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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

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Plutarch

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