Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Silence

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Syrus, Publilius

Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

Delint, Charles

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

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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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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Voltaire

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

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Musonnius

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Muhammad Ali

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig