Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Silence Quotes
DiscretionPrudenceSilence Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
AuthenticityCommunicationExpressionSilenceSociety Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
DutyIntegrityPerseveranceSilence To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
CommunicationInner WisdomReflectionSelf-ControlSilence Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
DiscretionSelf-ControlSilenceWisdom Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
CautionDecision MakingSelf-awarenessSilenceWisdom Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
CautionCommunicationConsequencesSilenceWisdom If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
ExpressionInexpressibleMusicSilence After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
ExistentialismSilenceTerrorVastness We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'
Self-ControlSilenceWisdom I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
ConnectionInner PeaceNatureSilenceSolitude But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
CommunicationSilenceThoughtfulnessWisdom Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.
ConscienceInactionPower DynamicsSilenceTyranny All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
DissonanceEnergyPerceptionSilence The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
InfluencePropagandaSilenceTruth Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
AssumptionConsentSilence To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
CommunicationEffectivenessInfluenceIntentionSilence Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
PrudenceSilenceWisdom It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
