Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Musonnius

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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

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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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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

Musonnius

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Zacharia

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

Seneca

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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 may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?