Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

2.

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

Abraham Lincoln

3.

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

Blaise Pascal

4.

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

Dickson, R A

5.

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

6.

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

7.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

8.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

9.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

10.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

11.

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

Hubbard, Kin

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Abraham Lincoln

14.

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

John Tillotson

15.

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

16.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

20.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

21.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

22.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

23.

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

Young, Brigham

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Plutarch

30.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Bagehot, Walter

31.

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

32.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

33.

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

Proverb, Arabian

34.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

35.

Those that are silent profess consent.

36.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

37.

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

Beaumont, Francis

38.

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

Engel, Silvan

39.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

40.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

41.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

42.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

43.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

44.

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

William Penn

45.

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

Marceau, Marcel

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

48.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

49.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

50.

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

Carlyle, Thomas