Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

2.

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

Beckett, Samuel

3.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

4.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

5.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

6.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

7.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

8.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

9.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

10.

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

Abraham Lincoln

11.

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

Abraham Lincoln

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Zacharia

15.

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

Young, Brigham

16.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

17.

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

Syrus, Publilius

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

22.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

23.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

24.

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

Hubbard, Kin

25.

These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead.

Crapsey, Adelaide

26.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

27.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

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

Blaise Pascal

29.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

30.

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

31.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

32.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

35.

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

O'Malley, Austin

36.

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

Proverb, Arabian

37.

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

Voltaire

38.

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

39.

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

40.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

41.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

42.

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

43.

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

Dante Alighieri

44.

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

Samuel Johnson

45.

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.

46.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

47.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

48.

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

49.

Those that are silent profess consent.

50.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper