Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Xenocrates of Chalcedon

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

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

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

Samuel Johnson

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

Young, Brigham

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

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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

Plutarch

11.

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

12.

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

13.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

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

O'Malley, Austin

16.

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

Dickson, R A

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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

20.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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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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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.

Ausonius

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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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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

27.

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

William Shakespeare

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Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly.

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

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

Musonnius

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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

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

32.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

36.

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

Muhammad Ali

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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

Engel, Silvan

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

Voltaire

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

Blaise Pascal

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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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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

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Those that are silent profess consent.