Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Silence

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

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Abraham Lincoln

10.

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

Smith, Sydney

11.

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

12.

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

Voltaire

13.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

14.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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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

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

Marceau, Marcel

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Seneca

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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

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

Coolidge, Calvin

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

O'Malley, Austin

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

27.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

28.

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

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

35.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Plutarch

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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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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

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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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

42.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

43.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

44.

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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.