Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

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Best Quotes about Silence

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dante Alighieri

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Blaise Pascal

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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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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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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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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Those that are silent profess consent.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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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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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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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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

Plutarch

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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

Abraham Lincoln

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It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Proverb, Arabian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.