Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

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Best Quotes about Silence

The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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.

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

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

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

Samuel Johnson

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

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

11.

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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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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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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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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Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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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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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Zacharia

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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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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Those that are silent profess consent.

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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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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

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

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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

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

Blaise Pascal

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

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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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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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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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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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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Seneca