Motivational Quotes

Silence

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

- Stanislaw J. Lec

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Voltaire

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

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

O'Malley, Austin

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Proverb, Arabian

13.

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

Abraham Lincoln

14.

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

Dickson, R A

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

16.

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

17.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

18.

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

Engel, Silvan

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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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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

22.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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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.

25.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

26.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Those that are silent profess consent.

28.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

30.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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

32.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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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.

36.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

Smith, Sydney

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

Abraham Lincoln

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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]

Bible

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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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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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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

42.

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

Muhammad Ali

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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

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