Motivational Quotes

Silence

The silent dog is the first to bite.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Seneca

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

Ausonius

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

Plutarch

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Beaumont, Francis

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These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

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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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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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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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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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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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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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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 ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Muhammad Ali

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

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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.

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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

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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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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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Samuel Johnson

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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