Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Samuel Johnson

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

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Musonnius

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

Dante Alighieri

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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

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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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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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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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 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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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Smith, Sydney

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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