Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

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

John Tillotson

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

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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 eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

Blaise Pascal

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

Abraham Lincoln

12.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

14.

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

Marceau, Marcel

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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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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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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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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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 golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Seneca

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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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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 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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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Voltaire

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

Zacharia

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Dickson, R A

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Samuel Johnson

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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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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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

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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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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper