Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

- Josh Billings

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Muhammad Ali

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

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

John Tillotson

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dickson, R A

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

Musonnius

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

15.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

16.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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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 fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

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

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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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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

O'Malley, Austin

25.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

27.

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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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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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

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

34.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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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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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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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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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

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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