Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Ausonius

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

2.

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

3.

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

4.

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

Muhammad Ali

5.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

6.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

7.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

8.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

9.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

10.

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

11.

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

Plutarch

12.

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

Smith, Sydney

13.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

14.

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

Beckett, Samuel

15.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

O'Malley, Austin

20.

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

21.

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

Abraham Lincoln

22.

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

23.

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

William Penn

24.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Seneca

28.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

29.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

31.

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

Proverb, Arabian

32.

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

Abraham Lincoln

33.

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

34.

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

John Tillotson

35.

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

Syrus, Publilius

36.

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

37.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

38.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

39.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

40.

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

41.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

42.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

43.

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

44.

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

Blaise Pascal