Motivational Quotes

Silence

There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

- Brownlow, Leroy

Best Quotes about Silence

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dickson, R A

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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

Bible

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

Beckett, Samuel

10.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

13.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

14.

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

Dante Alighieri

15.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

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

Musonnius

17.

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

18.

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

Bagehot, Walter

19.

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

William Penn

20.

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.

21.

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

Abraham Lincoln

22.

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

23.

Those that are silent profess consent.

24.

Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

25.

With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

26.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

27.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

28.

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

Coolidge, Calvin

29.

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

Plutarch

30.

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

31.

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

Muhammad Ali

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.

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

34.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

35.

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

Voltaire

36.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

37.

Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

38.

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

Hubbard, Kin

39.

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

40.

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

Engel, Silvan

41.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

42.

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

43.

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

44.

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

Smith, Sydney

45.

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

46.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

47.

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

Sy Rosen and Christian Williams

48.

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

Gabirol, Ibn

49.

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

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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