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

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

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

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

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

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Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

Zacharia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads on like a gray vegetation.

Arp, Jean

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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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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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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It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Engel, Silvan

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

Smith, Sydney

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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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.

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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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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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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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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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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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

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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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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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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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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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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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There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott