Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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

Zacharia

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

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

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

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

Blaise Pascal

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

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

Musonnius

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

12.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Arabian

14.

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

Dante Alighieri

15.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

O'Malley, Austin

18.

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

John Tillotson

19.

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

Beckett, Samuel

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

Bagehot, Walter

21.

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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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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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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

Voltaire

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

28.

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

29.

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

Engel, Silvan

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Those that are silent profess consent.

31.

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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'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

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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

34.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

37.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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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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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

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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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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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.