Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Crapsey, Adelaide

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Abraham Lincoln

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Plutarch

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

19.

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]

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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

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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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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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Dickson, R A

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Dante Alighieri

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Voltaire

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

39.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Seneca

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

Zacharia

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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

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

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

Beaumont, Francis

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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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]

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