Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

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Best Quotes about Silence

1.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

2.

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

Samuel Johnson

3.

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

4.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

5.

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

Marceau, Marcel

6.

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

7.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

8.

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

Beaumont, Francis

9.

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

10.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

11.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

15.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

16.

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

17.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

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

20.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

24.

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

Seneca

25.

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

26.

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

Voltaire

27.

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

Dickson, R A

28.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

29.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

30.

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

Muhammad Ali

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

33.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

34.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

35.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

36.

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

37.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

38.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

39.

The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

43.

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

Smith, Sydney

44.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

46.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Dante Alighieri