Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Silence Quotes
ExpressionInexpressibleMusicSilence After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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.
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.
DiscretionPrudenceSilence Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
ConscienceInactionPower DynamicsSilenceTyranny All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
AssumptionConsentSilence To be sure I must; and therefore I may assume that your silence gives consent.
DutyIntegrityPerseveranceSilence To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
CommunicationSilenceThoughtfulnessWisdom Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something.
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.
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.
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.
CommunicationEffectivenessInfluenceIntentionSilence Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
CommunicationMisunderstandingRelationshipSilenceUnderstanding In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
AchievementCelebrationGrowthMortalitySilence Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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.
CautionCommunicationConsequencesSilenceWisdom If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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.
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.
