Motivational Quotes

Silence

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

- Sheddan, Scott

Best Quotes about Silence

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Voltaire

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

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Those that are silent profess consent.

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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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 the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

John Tillotson

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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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 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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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Dickson, R A

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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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 sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

Zacharia

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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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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Abraham Lincoln

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Musonnius

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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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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

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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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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