Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

- Josh Billings

Best Quotes about Silence

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Muhammad Ali

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Engel, Silvan

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ausonius

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Plutarch

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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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

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

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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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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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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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

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Blaise Pascal

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

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

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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

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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