Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

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

Voltaire

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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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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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Engel, Silvan

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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

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

Plutarch

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.

Giles, Henry

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

Dickson, R A

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Zacharia

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Muhammad Ali

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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

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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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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they speak with the accent of natives they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

Illich, Ivan

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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 most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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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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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 silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Blaise Pascal

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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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