Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Gabirol, Ibn

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Dickson, R A

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

Samuel Johnson

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

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

Engel, Silvan

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

Bagehot, Walter

10.

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

Musonnius

11.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

12.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

15.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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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

17.

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

Ausonius

18.

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

Blaise Pascal

19.

Those that are silent profess consent.

20.

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

21.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

William Penn

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

25.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

26.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

28.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

29.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

30.

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 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

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

Plutarch

34.

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

35.

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.

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

39.

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

40.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

41.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

42.

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

Dante Alighieri

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

44.

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

46.

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

Seneca

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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

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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

49.

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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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