Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

Bagehot, Walter

2.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

3.

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

4.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

5.

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

6.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

7.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

8.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

9.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

10.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

11.

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

12.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

13.

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

Dickson, R A

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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 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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Abraham Lincoln

20.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

21.

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

Musonnius

22.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

25.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

26.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

29.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

30.

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

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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

32.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

34.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

35.

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

Ausonius

36.

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

Plutarch

37.

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

38.

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

Zacharia

39.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

40.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

41.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

42.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

43.

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

44.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

45.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

46.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

47.

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