Words Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 24

• Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognizing the capabilities of all women.

  Huda Sha'arawi

  Women, Pedestal, Merit

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• We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.

  Paulo Coelho

  Jobs, Inspiration, University Degrees

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• We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in Proverbs, "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom." (Proverbs 4:7.) But in getting wisdom and getting knowledge, above all we should "get understanding." It is important to learn a profession, learn a trade. That applies not only to the young men, but it applies to you young women as well. You girls should place yourselves in a position to be self-supporting and independent in the event that tragedy or an emergency comes, for emergencies have come and will continue to come.

  Henry D. Taylor

  Girl, Wisdom, Book

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• A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Girl, Wise, Wisdom

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• History is no longer just a chronicle of kings and statesmen, of people who wielded power, but of ordinary women and men engaged in manifold tasks. Women's history is an assertion that women have a history.

  Toshiko Kishida

  Kings, Men, People

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• Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

  Charles Dickens

  Stranger, Retiring, Asks

  'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' (1870) ch. 4

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• When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing had interrupted, a life devoted to the women's work of needle and distaff.

  Arcangela Tarabotti

  Pain, Writing, Hands

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• Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.

  Qiu Jin

  Country, Men, Two

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• The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.

  Catherine the Great

  People, Perfect, Moral

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• Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Laughing, Victory, Dodge

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• For a king, death is better than dethronement and exile.

  Theodora

  Kings, Exile

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• ...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Feelings, Mind, Senses

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• Each human being has his or her own sexual identity and should be able to exercise that identity without guilt as long as they do not force that sexual identity on others.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiration, Exercise, Long

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• What is your assurance of salvation? The promise of God's Word. If God says it, that settles it, because God cannot lie. You can trust the promise of God's Word.

  Rick Warren

  Wisdom, Lying, Promise

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• It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!

  Charles Dickens

  Feelings, Matter

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Our mutual friend”, p.290

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• It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things.

  Charles Dickens

  Intelligent, Men, Able

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume”, p.562, e-artnow

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• ... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

  Charles Dickens

  Office, Castles, Life Is

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.235

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• Be an example in your Church activity-honor the Sabbath day, attend your meetings, observe the Word of Wisdom, pay your tithes and offerings, support your leaders, and otherwise keep the commandments. Serve cheerfully and gratefully in every calling you receive. Live worthy of a temple recommend and enjoy the sweet, sacred spirit that comes from frequent temple attendance.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Sweet, Offering, Leader

  Ezra Taft Benson (1990). “Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice”, Shadow Mountain

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• No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Aversion, Sparks

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Our Mutual Friend: Easyread Edition”, p.243, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, Papa, Asking

  Charles Dickens, Peter Preston (1998). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories”, p.388, Wordsworth Editions

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• "My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."

  Charles Dickens

  Dust, Two, Honour

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Our Mutual Friend: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

  Charles Dickens

  Surprise, Me Alone, Misfortunes

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.71

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• When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

  Charles Dickens

  Talking, Papa, Sitting

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.473

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• Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, Secret, Courses

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.345

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• The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Morning, Party

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.344, Pan Macmillan

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