Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Musonnius

Best Quotes about Silence

1.

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

2.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

3.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

4.

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

5.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

6.

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

7.

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

Abraham Lincoln

8.

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

9.

Those that are silent profess consent.

10.

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

11.

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

12.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

15.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

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

O'Malley, Austin

17.

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

18.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

19.

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

Seneca

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

23.

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

Hubbard, Kin

24.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

26.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

27.

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

28.

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

Marceau, Marcel

29.

Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

30.

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

31.

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

Abraham Lincoln

32.

Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

33.

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

34.

The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

35.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

37.

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

Blaise Pascal

38.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

39.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

42.

True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

William Penn

43.

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

Musonnius

44.

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

Engel, Silvan

45.

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

Bagehot, Walter

46.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

50.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von