Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Young, Brigham

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 one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

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

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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.

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

Engel, Silvan

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

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

Blaise Pascal

10.

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

Dante Alighieri

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

13.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

14.

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

15.

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?

Marceau, Marcel

16.

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

17.

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

Smith, Sydney

18.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

19.

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

Dickson, R A

20.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

Mcginley, Phyllis

22.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

23.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

27.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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

Plutarch

29.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

30.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

31.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

32.

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

33.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

34.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

35.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

36.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

37.

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

38.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

39.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

40.

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

41.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

44.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

45.

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

Samuel Johnson

46.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

47.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

48.

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

49.

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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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid