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The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
- Hubbard, Elbert
Silence Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Silence

1.
You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

2.
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
Confucius

3.
'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
Ovid

4.
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

5.
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

6.
The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.
Musonnius

7.
The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare

8.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

9.
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

10.
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn

11.
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
Churchill, Winston

12.
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Syrus, Publilius

13.
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

14.
Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

15.
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]
Bible

16.
An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
Bagehot, Walter

17.
It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
Hubbard, Kin

18.
Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.
Gaulle, Charles De

19.
Those that are silent profess consent.

20.
A silent mouth is melodious.
Proverb, Irish

21.
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
Thoreau, Henry David

22.
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.
John Tillotson

23.
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates of Chalcedon

24.
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri

25.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

26.
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

27.
Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.
Zacharia

28.
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
Disraeli, Benjamin

29.
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

30.
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Dickson, R A

31.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

33.
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

34.
Not to ask is not be denied.
Dryden, John

35.
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy

36.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings

37.
Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
Young, Brigham

38.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Beaumont, Francis

39.
I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

40.
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
Gibran, Kahlil

41.
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

42.
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
Proverb, Arabian

43.
Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

44.
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
Ausonius

45.
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
Gabirol, Ibn

46.
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
Seneca

47.
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Beckett, Samuel

48.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
William Shakespeare

49.
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali

50.
Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo


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