Motivational Quotes

Silence

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

- Sheddan, Scott

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Dickson, R A

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Marceau, Marcel

22.

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

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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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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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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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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 ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Young, Brigham

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

Muhammad Ali

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Plutarch

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Ausonius

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Voltaire

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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.