Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

2.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

3.

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

4.

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

Smith, Sydney

5.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

6.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

7.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

8.

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

9.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

10.

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

11.

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

Seneca

12.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

13.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

O'Malley, Austin

14.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

15.

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

Beckett, Samuel

16.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

17.

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

Voltaire

18.

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

Dickson, R A

19.

Those that are silent profess consent.

20.

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

Hubbard, Kin

21.

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

Musonnius

22.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

23.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marceau, Marcel

24.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

25.

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

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Ausonius

28.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

Beaumont, Francis

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

35.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

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

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Engel, Silvan

39.

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

40.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

41.

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

42.

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

Bagehot, Walter

43.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

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

Zacharia

46.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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