Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Plutarch

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Muhammad Ali

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

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

10.

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

11.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

12.

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

Marceau, Marcel

13.

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

14.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

15.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

16.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

17.

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

18.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

19.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

20.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

21.

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

Dante Alighieri

22.

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

23.

Boehme, Jacob

24.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

25.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

26.

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

Proverb, Arabian

27.

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

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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

29.

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

O'Malley, Austin

30.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

31.

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

Dickson, R A

32.

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

Zacharia

33.

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

34.

Those that are silent profess consent.

35.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

36.

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

37.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

38.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

39.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

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

41.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

42.

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

Syrus, Publilius

43.

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

Young, Brigham

44.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

45.

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

William Penn

46.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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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

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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

Illich, Ivan

49.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

50.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig