Motivational Quotes

Silence

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

- Lynn Johnston

Best Quotes about Silence

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

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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

Dickson, R A

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

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

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

Voltaire

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

17.

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. [Proverbs 17:28]

Bible

18.

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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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Dante Alighieri

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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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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Those that are silent profess consent.

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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 the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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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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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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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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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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

William Shakespeare

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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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