Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- John Tillotson

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Abraham Lincoln

5.

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

6.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

7.

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

John Tillotson

8.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

9.

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

10.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

13.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

14.

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

O'Malley, Austin

15.

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

Samuel Johnson

16.

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

Abraham Lincoln

17.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

18.

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

19.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

20.

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

Beckett, Samuel

21.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

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

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

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

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Smith, Sydney

28.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

29.

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

Beaumont, Francis

30.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

31.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

32.

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

Plutarch

33.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

34.

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

35.

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

Dickson, R A

36.

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

37.

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

Voltaire

38.

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

39.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

41.

Those that are silent profess consent.

42.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

43.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

44.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

45.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

46.

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

47.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

48.

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

Bagehot, Walter

49.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

Young, Brigham

50.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin