Motivational Quotes

Silence

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

- Burns, Robert

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.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

3.

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

Plutarch

4.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

5.

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

Abraham Lincoln

6.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

7.

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

Bagehot, Walter

8.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

John of the Cross, St.

9.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

10.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

13.

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

Muhammad Ali

14.

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

Delint, Charles

15.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

16.

Those that are silent profess consent.

17.

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

18.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

19.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

20.

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

21.

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

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

24.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

25.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

26.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

27.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

28.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

29.

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

30.

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

Young, Brigham

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Blaise Pascal

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.

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

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.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

37.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

38.

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