Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Gabirol, Ibn

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

10.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

11.

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

12.

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

Zacharia

13.

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.

14.

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

Smith, Sydney

15.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Beckett, Samuel

18.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

19.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

20.

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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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

22.

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

Dickson, R A

23.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

26.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

27.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says,'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.'A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

Tom Blair

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

35.

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

Abraham Lincoln

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

37.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

38.

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

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

43.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

44.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

45.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

46.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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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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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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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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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John