Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

2.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

3.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

4.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

5.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

6.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

7.

Those that are silent profess consent.

8.

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

9.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

10.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

11.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

12.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

13.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

14.

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

Muhammad Ali

15.

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

Young, Brigham

16.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

17.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

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

Dickson, R A

19.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

20.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

21.

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

Abraham Lincoln

22.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

23.

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

24.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

25.

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

26.

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

27.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

28.

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

Beaumont, Francis

29.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

30.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

31.

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

32.

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

Engel, Silvan

33.

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

Beckett, Samuel

34.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

36.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

37.

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

Ausonius

38.

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

Voltaire

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Blaise Pascal

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Musonnius

44.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

45.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

46.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

47.

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

O'Malley, Austin

48.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

49.

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

50.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert