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Silence

Silence is the virtue of fools.
- Sir Francis Bacon
Silence Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Silence

1.
There are times when silence has the loudest voice.
Brownlow, Leroy

2.
I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
Thoreau, Henry David

3.
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri

4.
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Fraquhar Tupper

5.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

6.
Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

7.
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
Meister Eckhart

8.
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
Smith, Sydney

9.
You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

10.
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
O'Malley, Austin

11.
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy

12.
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

13.
Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. Attanasio

14.
Silence is argument carried on by other means.
Guevara, Che

15.
Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

16.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

19.
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

20.
Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.
Shakespeare, William

21.
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

22.
If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
Coolidge, Calvin

23.
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
Disraeli, Benjamin

24.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

25.
Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

26.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Carlyle, Thomas

27.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings

28.
Oppression can only survive through silence.
Carmen de Monteflores

29.
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Beckett, Samuel

30.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Sir Francis Bacon

31.
With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)
Horace

32.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Colton, Charles Caleb

33.
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

34.
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
Mcginley, Phyllis

35.
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

36.
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

37.
I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Syrus, Publilius

38.
Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.
Zacharia

39.
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much.
William Shakespeare

40.
The silent dog is the first to bite.
Proverb

41.
Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

42.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch

43.
I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

44.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

45.
There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
Voltaire

46.
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

47.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Beaumont, Francis

48.
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

49.
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates of Chalcedon

50.
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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