Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about 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

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Smith, Sydney

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

I went down with the ship but I kept my mouth shut so I didn't drown like the rest of them.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

10.

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

Abraham Lincoln

11.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

12.

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

13.

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

Young, Brigham

14.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

23.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

27.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

28.

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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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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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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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

32.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

Those that are silent profess consent.

34.

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

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

William Penn

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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

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

Zacharia

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

Musonnius

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Dickson, R A

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The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

Twain, Mark

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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

49.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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