Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Coolidge, Calvin

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Zacharia

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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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

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

12.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

15.

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Young, Brigham

18.

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

21.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

24.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

25.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

26.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

27.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

28.

Those that are silent profess consent.

29.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

30.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out 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

35.

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

Ausonius

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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

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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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

39.

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

Beaumont, Francis

40.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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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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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

45.

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

Engel, Silvan

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

49.

What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.

Katz, Jonathan

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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