Motivational Quotes

Silence

Not to ask is not be denied.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Silence

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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

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

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

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

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

Muhammad Ali

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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 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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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Dickson, R A

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

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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

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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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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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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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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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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

Voltaire

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

Zacharia

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

Beckett, Samuel

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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