Motivational Quotes

Silence

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

2.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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.

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

William Penn

5.

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

6.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

7.

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

Bagehot, Walter

8.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

9.

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.

10.

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

Beaumont, Francis

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Blaise Pascal

14.

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

Smith, Sydney

15.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

16.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

17.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

18.

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

Hubbard, Kin

19.

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

Abraham Lincoln

20.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

21.

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

Marceau, Marcel

22.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

23.

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

24.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

25.

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

Seneca

26.

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

O'Malley, Austin

27.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

28.

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Gabirol, Ibn

29.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

30.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

31.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Beckett, Samuel

33.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

34.

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

35.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

36.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

37.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

38.

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

Musonnius

39.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

40.

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

Young, Brigham

41.

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

Dickson, R A

42.

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

43.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

44.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

45.

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

46.

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

Abraham Lincoln

47.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

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

49.

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

Engel, Silvan

50.

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