Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Silence

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bagehot, Walter

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, Arabian

12.

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

Smith, Sydney

13.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

14.

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

Dickson, R A

15.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

16.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

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

Young, Brigham

18.

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

19.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

20.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

21.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

22.

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

23.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

24.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

25.

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

26.

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

Blaise Pascal

27.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

28.

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

29.

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

30.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

31.

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

Dante Alighieri

32.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

33.

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

Engel, Silvan

34.

Those that are silent profess consent.

35.

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

O'Malley, Austin

36.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

37.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

38.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

39.

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

40.

You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

43.

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

Plutarch

44.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

45.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

46.

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

47.

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

48.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

49.

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

50.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper