Motivational Quotes

Silence

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

- Lynn Johnston

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Muhammad Ali

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Seneca

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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

Zacharia

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

Voltaire

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

O'Malley, Austin

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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

Shakespeare, William

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Plutarch

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

Dante Alighieri

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Engel, Silvan

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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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 the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Blaise Pascal

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

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

Marceau, Marcel

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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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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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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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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.