Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

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

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

Musonnius

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

John Tillotson

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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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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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

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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

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

Dickson, R A

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Ausonius

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

Gabirol, Ibn