Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Plutarch

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.

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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

Ausonius

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Musonnius

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Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

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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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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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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

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

Zacharia

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A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

O'Malley, Austin

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And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

Meister Eckhart

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Burns, Robert

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Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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

Marceau, Marcel

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

Gabirol, Ibn

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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

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

Bagehot, Walter

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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A silent mouth is melodious.