Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

Those that are silent profess consent.

2.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

3.

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

William Penn

4.

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

Abraham Lincoln

5.

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

6.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

7.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

8.

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

9.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

10.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

11.

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

12.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

13.

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

14.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

15.

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

16.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

17.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

18.

The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.

Giles, Henry

19.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

20.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

21.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

22.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

23.

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

Voltaire

24.

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

Beckett, Samuel

25.

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

Abraham Lincoln

26.

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

Zacharia

27.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

30.

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

Marceau, Marcel

31.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

32.

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

33.

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

Seneca

34.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

36.

The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

37.

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

38.

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

Dante Alighieri

39.

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

40.

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

41.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

42.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

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

Dickson, R A