Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

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

Musonnius

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

Abraham Lincoln

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Voltaire

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

10.

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

11.

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

Plutarch

12.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

13.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

14.

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

15.

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

Seneca

16.

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

17.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

18.

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

Samuel Johnson

19.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

22.

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

Smith, Sydney

23.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

28.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

29.

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

Proverb, Arabian

30.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

31.

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

Blaise Pascal

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Syrus, Publilius

34.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

38.

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

39.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

40.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

41.

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

Hubbard, Kin

42.

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