Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

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

Beaumont, Francis

2.

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

3.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

4.

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

5.

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

Hubbard, Kin

6.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

7.

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

8.

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

9.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

10.

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

William Penn

11.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

12.

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

John Tillotson

13.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

14.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

15.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

16.

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

Dickson, R A

17.

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

18.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

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

Engel, Silvan

23.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

24.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

25.

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

Muhammad Ali

26.

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

27.

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

Musonnius

28.

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

29.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

30.

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

Bible

31.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

32.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

33.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

34.

The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.

Giles, Henry

35.

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

Plutarch

36.

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

Abraham Lincoln

37.

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

38.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

39.

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

40.

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

Beckett, Samuel

41.

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

Dante Alighieri

42.

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

Blaise Pascal

43.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

44.

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

Marceau, Marcel

45.

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

46.

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

Bagehot, Walter

47.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

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

49.

The silent dog is the first to bite.