Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Zacharia

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

2.

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

Zacharia

3.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

4.

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

Muhammad Ali

5.

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

6.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

7.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

8.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

9.

When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.

Boehme, Jacob

10.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

11.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

12.

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

Voltaire

13.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

14.

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

15.

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

Beckett, Samuel

16.

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

Dickson, R A

17.

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

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Proverb, Arabian

20.

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

21.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

22.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

23.

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

Abraham Lincoln

24.

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

Musonnius

25.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

26.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

27.

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

John Tillotson

28.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

29.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

30.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

34.

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

35.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

40.

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

Abraham Lincoln

41.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

42.

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

43.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

44.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

45.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

47.

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

48.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

49.

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

Plutarch

50.

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