Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Zacharia

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Beaumont, Francis

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

10.

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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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

13.

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

14.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ausonius

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

19.

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

Dante Alighieri

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

23.

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

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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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

31.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Plutarch

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Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

Peter Minard

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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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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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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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Engel, Silvan

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