Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

William Penn

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

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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Bible

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

12.

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

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I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Plutarch

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

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Ausonius

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Zacharia

23.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

John Tillotson

27.

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

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

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

Voltaire

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

Muhammad Ali

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Samuel Johnson

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

44.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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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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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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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius