Motivational Quotes

Silence

Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

- Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

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

3.

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

William Shakespeare

4.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

5.

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

Blaise Pascal

6.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

7.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

8.

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

Muhammad Ali

9.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

10.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

11.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

12.

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

13.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

14.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

15.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

16.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

17.

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

18.

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

19.

It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Engel, Silvan

20.

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

Ausonius

21.

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

Beckett, Samuel

22.

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

23.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

24.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

25.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

27.

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

O'Malley, Austin

28.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

29.

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

Samuel Johnson

30.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

31.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

32.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

33.

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

Proverb, Arabian

34.

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

Dante Alighieri

35.

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

Young, Brigham

36.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

37.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

38.

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

39.

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

Beaumont, Francis

40.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

41.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

42.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

46.

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

Plutarch

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius