Motivational Quotes

Silence

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

- Helprin, Mark

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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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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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

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

17.

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Musonnius

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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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It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

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The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Dante Alighieri

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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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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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

38.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

40.

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

Dickson, R A

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

O'Malley, Austin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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