Motivational Quotes

Silence

The silent dog is the first to bite.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Silence

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

John Tillotson

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

Dickson, R A

Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marceau, Marcel

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

10.

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

Blaise Pascal

11.

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

12.

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

Dante Alighieri

13.

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

Beaumont, Francis

14.

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

15.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

16.

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.

17.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

18.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

19.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

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

21.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

22.

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

23.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Arabian

26.

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

27.

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

Hubbard, Kin

28.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

29.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

30.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

31.

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

35.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

36.

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

Musonnius

37.

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

Beckett, Samuel

38.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

39.

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

40.

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

Muhammad Ali

41.

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

42.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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

44.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

45.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.