Motivational Quotes

Silence

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

- Thomas Hardy

Best Quotes about Silence

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Blaise Pascal

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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Beaumont, Francis

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

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

Zacharia

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

10.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

12.

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

Marceau, Marcel

13.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

14.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Plutarch

17.

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

18.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

20.

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

21.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

Proverb, Arabian

25.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

28.

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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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

30.

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Engel, Silvan

34.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Dickson, R A

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

Smith, Sydney

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

41.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

O'Malley, Austin

44.

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.