Words Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 25

• I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.

  Charles Dickens

  Determination, Men, Order

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne”, p.356

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• "O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."

  Charles Dickens

  Feelings, Comfort, Deeds

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.501

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• Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Facts, Theory

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Little Dorrit”, p.758, Kartindo.com

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• You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Done, Construction

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.520

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• Each one should remember there is a chance for him.

  Booker T. Washington

  African American, Chance, Remember

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• Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Children, Philosophy

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.

  Katherine Dunham

  Thinking, Forever, African American

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• Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only one end in view: to show it off, to put into our accounts to entertain others with it, as though it were merely counters, useful for totting up and producing statements, but having no other use or currency. 'Apud alios loqui didicerunt, non ipsi secum' [They have learned how to talk with others, not with themselves]

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Hands, Views

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.

  Paulo Coelho

  Wall, Inspiration, Sacred

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• The most deadly disease truly is the failure of the heart.

  Oscar Arias

  Peace, Heart, Disease

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• Hear and understand: the Flame is the source of all things, all things are its manifestation! Seek to be One with the Divine Sun! Hold your thought on uniting the Light with your human body. Light is the Source of all the life; for without the Great Light nothing can ever exist! Know, Light is the basis of all formed matter. Know, O man, that all space is filled by worlds within worlds.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Men, Space, Light

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• To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

  Charles Dickens

  Games, Delight, Growing

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.246

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• We're a feeling, an awareness encased here

  Carlos Castaneda

  Feelings, Awareness

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• The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

  Charles Dickens

  Class, World, Success Of Others

  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.307

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• We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Competition, Who We Are, Ethics

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• Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Hatred, Ethics

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• Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.

  J. Ogden Armour

  Money, Business, Brain

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• Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that it is kept in. One man sees clearly but does not see straight: consequently he sees what is good but fails to follow it; he sees knowledge and does not use it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Powerful, Educational, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• As Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the Armed Forces of the United States. Throughout the centuries, men of many faiths and diverse origins have found in the Sacred Book words of wisdom, counsel, and inspiration. It is a fountain of strength...an aid in attaining the highest aspiration of the human soul.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Book, Inspiration, Reading

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• What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Knowledge, Soul, Prejudice

  Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose, Mother (2003). “Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology”, p.184, Lotus Press

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• If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

  Vusi Mahlasela

  Blow, Wind, Squash

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• Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him be taught to throw down his arms and surrender to truth as soon as he perceives it, whether the truth is born at his rival's doing or within himself from some change in his ideas.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Educational, Ideas, Sorting Out

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• Raise the roof, that I might see the stars
  To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are
  Please, I need proof

  Barry Privett

  Stars, Needs, Might

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• Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the case that all such experiments are of equal merit or value. Some cultures - and modernity is patently one - have managed to transmute consciousness into the "disease" that Nietzsche called it, the self-affliction of a self-centeredness that has purged itself of all vestiges of wisdom and value.

  Kenny Smith

  Self, Trying, Culture

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• Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Lust, Revelations

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