Motivational Quotes

Silence

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

- Brownlow, Leroy

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

Proverb, Arabian

2.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

3.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

4.

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

Plutarch

5.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

6.

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

7.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

Bagehot, Walter

8.

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

Abraham Lincoln

9.

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

10.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

11.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

12.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

13.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

14.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

15.

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

Dickson, R A

16.

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

17.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

20.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

21.

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

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

24.

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

Ausonius

25.

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

John Tillotson

26.

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

Beckett, Samuel

27.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

28.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

29.

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

O'Malley, Austin

30.

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

Abraham Lincoln

31.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

32.

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

33.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

34.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

35.

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

36.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

Musonnius

39.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

40.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

41.

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

42.

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

Zacharia

43.

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

Voltaire

44.

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

45.

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

Smith, Sydney

46.

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

Blaise Pascal

47.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

48.

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

49.

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

Muhammad Ali

50.

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

Gibran, Kahlil