Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Seneca

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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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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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Smith, Sydney

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Ausonius

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

Blaise Pascal

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

Delint, Charles

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

Zacharia

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

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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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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.

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

Young, Brigham

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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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 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

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings