Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

2.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

3.

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

4.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

5.

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

Dante Alighieri

6.

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

Proverb, Arabian

7.

Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

8.

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

9.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

11.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

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

13.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

14.

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

Zacharia

15.

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

Smith, Sydney

16.

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

Marceau, Marcel

17.

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

18.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

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

21.

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

Muhammad Ali

22.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

23.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

24.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

25.

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

Abraham Lincoln

26.

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

Dickson, R A

27.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

28.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

29.

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

Musonnius

30.

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

31.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

32.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

33.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

34.

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

Beckett, Samuel

35.

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

36.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

37.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

38.

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

Seneca

39.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

40.

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

Young, Brigham

41.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

42.

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

43.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

44.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

45.

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

46.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Hubbard, Kin

49.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.