Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

O'Malley, Austin

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

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

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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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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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Zacharia

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

25.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

32.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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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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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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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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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Voltaire

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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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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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