Motivational Quotes

Silence

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

- Burns, Robert

Best Quotes about Silence

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.

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

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

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

Ausonius

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

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

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

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

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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

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

Zacharia

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Marceau, Marcel

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Seneca

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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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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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

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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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Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

William Penn

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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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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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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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says,'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.'A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blair

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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A silent mouth is melodious.