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

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

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Smith, Sydney

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

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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

Abraham Lincoln

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Dante Alighieri

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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 the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Marceau, Marcel

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Beckett, Samuel

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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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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Plutarch

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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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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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Eliot, George