Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

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Best Quotes about Silence

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

Abraham Lincoln

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Voltaire

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

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. [Proverbs 17:28]

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Dickson, R A

10.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

12.

When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

O'Malley, Austin

16.

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

17.

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

Samuel Johnson

18.

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

Proverb, Arabian

19.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

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

21.

Those that are silent profess consent.

22.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

23.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

24.

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

25.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

26.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

27.

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

28.

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

Bagehot, Walter

29.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

30.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

31.

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

Abraham Lincoln

32.

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

Seneca

33.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

34.

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

35.

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

Musonnius

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

38.

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

Beckett, Samuel

39.

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

Engel, Silvan

40.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

46.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

48.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.