Motivational Quotes

Silence

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Silence

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Plutarch

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

A silent mouth is melodious.

Proverb, Irish

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

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

Silence is a text easy to misread.

A. A. Attanasio

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Musonnius

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

Abraham Lincoln

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Young, Brigham

14.

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

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

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

Crapsey, Adelaide

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Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

Helprin, Mark

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The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Brownlow, Leroy

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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Josh Billings

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Publilius Syrus

29.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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

Ausonius

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

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

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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

Confucius

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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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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Silence is more musical than any song.

Christina Rossetti

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

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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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The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.

Proverb, Arabian

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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

44.

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

Beaumont, Francis

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

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

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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

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

Xenocrates of Chalcedon

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

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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