Motivational Quotes

Silence

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

- Burns, Robert

Best Quotes about Silence

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

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

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Muhammad Ali

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

13.

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

Dickson, R A

14.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

15.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

16.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

17.

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

Beaumont, Francis

18.

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

Seneca

19.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

20.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

21.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

22.

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

Plutarch

23.

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

Engel, Silvan

24.

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

John Tillotson

25.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads on like a gray vegetation.

Arp, Jean

26.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

27.

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

William Penn

28.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

29.

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

30.

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

Abraham Lincoln

32.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

33.

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

34.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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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

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

Musonnius

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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

39.

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

Marceau, Marcel

40.

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

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

43.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

O'Malley, Austin