Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

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Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

Young, Brigham

2.

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

Abraham Lincoln

3.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

4.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

5.

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

Seneca

6.

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

7.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

8.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

9.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

10.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

11.

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

Smith, Sydney

12.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

13.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

16.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

17.

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

18.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

19.

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

20.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

25.

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

Blaise Pascal

26.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

Muhammad Ali

28.

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

Hubbard, Kin

29.

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

O'Malley, Austin

30.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

31.

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

Plutarch

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

34.

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

Beaumont, Francis

35.

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

36.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

37.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

38.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

39.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

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

Beckett, Samuel

41.

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

42.

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

Musonnius

43.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Those that are silent profess consent.

47.

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

Ausonius

48.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

49.

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

Samuel Johnson