Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Dante Alighieri

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

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

10.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

11.

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

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

13.

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

Beckett, Samuel

14.

Those that are silent profess consent.

15.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

16.

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.

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

21.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

26.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

27.

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

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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

O'Malley, Austin

30.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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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

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

33.

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

Young, Brigham

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

35.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

William Shakespeare

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Blaise Pascal

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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence