Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Blaise Pascal

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Ausonius

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

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

Engel, Silvan

10.

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

William Penn

11.

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

12.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Syrus, Publilius

15.

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

Plutarch

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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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Those that are silent profess consent.

19.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Voltaire

21.

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

Marceau, Marcel

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Dante Alighieri

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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Carlyle, Thomas

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

27.

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

Dickson, R A

28.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

35.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

36.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

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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.

38.

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

Muhammad Ali

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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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

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

Blaise Pascal

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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