Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

Blaise Pascal

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

William Shakespeare

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Beckett, Samuel

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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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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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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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 never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

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

Voltaire

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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

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

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Musonnius

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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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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

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

Bagehot, Walter

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

Seneca

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

Beaumont, Francis

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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