Motivational Quotes

Silence

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

- Lynn Johnston

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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.

4.

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

Blaise Pascal

5.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

6.

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

7.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

8.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

9.

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

Proverb, Arabian

10.

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

Bible

11.

The man who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

O'Malley, Austin

13.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

14.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

17.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

18.

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

Abraham Lincoln

19.

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

20.

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

21.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

22.

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

23.

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

Marceau, Marcel

24.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Abraham Lincoln

32.

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

33.

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

Ausonius

34.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

35.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

36.

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

William Penn

37.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

38.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

39.

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

Dickson, R A

40.

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

41.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

43.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

44.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

45.

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

Beckett, Samuel

46.

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

47.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

48.

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

49.

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

Muhammad Ali

50.

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