Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

- Guevara, Che

Best Quotes about Silence

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.

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Abraham Lincoln

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Dickson, R A

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

11.

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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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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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

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

Voltaire

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Bible

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

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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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

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Seneca

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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

Smith, Sydney

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He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Ausonius

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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