Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Silence

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Bagehot, Walter

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

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

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

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

Musonnius

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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

Zacharia

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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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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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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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