Motivational Quotes

Silence

The silent dog is the first to bite.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Voltaire

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

Young, Brigham

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

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

10.

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

Ausonius

11.

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

12.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads on like a gray vegetation.

Arp, Jean

14.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

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

16.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

17.

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

Bagehot, Walter

18.

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

Blaise Pascal

19.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

20.

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

Abraham Lincoln

21.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

22.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

23.

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

Hubbard, Kin

24.

Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

25.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

26.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

27.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

28.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

31.

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

Engel, Silvan

32.

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

O'Malley, Austin

33.

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

34.

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

Plutarch

35.

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

36.

X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Dickson, R A

37.

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

38.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

39.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

40.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

41.

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

42.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

43.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

44.

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

Bible

45.

Those that are silent profess consent.