Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

- Samuel Johnson

Best Quotes about Silence

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Blaise Pascal

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Bagehot, Walter

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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

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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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A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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

Marceau, Marcel

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A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Dante Alighieri

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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

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Plutarch

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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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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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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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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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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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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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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