Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

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Best Quotes about Silence

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Beckett, Samuel

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

O'Malley, Austin

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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

Plutarch

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

Ausonius

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Abraham Lincoln

23.

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

Voltaire

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

29.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

31.

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

Dickson, R A

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marceau, Marcel

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Smith, Sydney

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

43.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

44.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Zacharia

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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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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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.