Motivational Quotes

Silence

Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

- Zacharia

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

2.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

3.

Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

Zacharia

4.

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

5.

The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.

Giles, Henry

6.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

7.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

8.

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

Plutarch

9.

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

10.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

11.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

12.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

13.

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

Musonnius

14.

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

15.

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

Seneca

16.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

17.

Those that are silent profess consent.

18.

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

19.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

Hubbard, Kin

20.

Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

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

Muhammad Ali

24.

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

Dickson, R A

25.

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

Ausonius

26.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

27.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

28.

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

29.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

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

Beckett, Samuel

31.

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

32.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

33.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

34.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

35.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

36.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

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

39.

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

40.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

41.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

42.

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

Abraham Lincoln

43.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

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

Abraham Lincoln

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

49.

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

Marceau, Marcel

50.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius