Words Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 27

• The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.

  David Hume

  Causes, Obvious, True Ones

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1189, Delphi Classics

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• There are no working hours for leaders.

  James Gibbons

  Leadership, Business, Hours

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• I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values. I am not thinking so much of the dangers with which technical progress has directly confronted mankind, as of the stifling of mutual human considerations by a 'matter-of-fact' habit of thought which has come to lie like a killing frost upon human relations. Without 'ethical culture' there is no salvation for humanity.

  Albert Einstein

  Attitude, Educational, Lying

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.53, Broadway Books

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• I know nothing of philosophical philanthropy. But I know what I have seen, and what I have looked in the face in this world here, where I find myself. And I tell you this, my friend, that there are people (men and women both, unfortunately) who have no good in them-none. That there are people whom it is necessary to detest without compromise. That there are people who must be dealt with as enemies of the human race. That there are people who have no human heart, and who must be crushed like savage beasts and cleared out of the way.

  Charles Dickens

  Philosophical, Heart, Men

  Charles Dickens (2017). “THE GREATEST DICKENS CLASSICS (Illustrated Edition): Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, The Life of Dickens”, p.4045, e-artnow

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• It's not put into his head to be buried. It's put into his head to be made useful. You hold your life on the condition that to the last you shall struggle hard for it. Every man holds a discovery on the same terms.

  Charles Dickens

  Struggle, Men, Discovery

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.17059, Delphi Classics

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• "As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, Greed, Too Much

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.538

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• If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

  Jesse Jackson

  Trying, May, Failing

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• The philosophy of the rich and the poor is this: the rich invest their money and spend what is left. The poor spend their money and invest what is left.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Business, Philosophy

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• What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving, Example, Morality

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• Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

  Immanuel Kant

  Problem, Proof, Existence

  Immanuel Kant (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)”, p.290, Delphi Classics

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• ... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.

  Albert Einstein

  Educational, Hands, Order

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and that it is the sign of an unskilled naturalist to have recourse to a different quality in order to explain every different operation.

  David Hume

  Simple, Order, Quality

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• ... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

  Aristotle

  Principles, Substance, Kind

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• Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Causes, Principles

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• Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.

  Rob Sheffield

  Mother, Giving, House

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.125, Penguin

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• I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.

  Charles Dickens

  Reality, Accomplished, Happens

  Charles Dickens (2006). “David Copperfield”, p.723, Penguin

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• Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

  George Santayana

  Wisdom, Disillusionment

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• Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Innocent Man, May

  CHARLES DICKENS (1871). “THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, AND SKETCHES BY "BOZ".”, p.122

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• My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare. Then he spoke great words of wisdom as he sat there on that chair: "To eat these things," said my uncle, "You must exercise great care. You may swallow down what's solid, but you must spit out the air!" And as you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.

  Dr. Seuss

  Uncles, Exercise, Air

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• Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

  Charles Dickens

  Wise, Godmother, Serious

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.427, Xist Publishing

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• Gundar seemed to come to a decision. "Well, as my old mam used to say, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck." "Very wise," Halt said. "And what exactly do your mother's words of wisdom have to do with this situation?" Gundar shrugged. "It looks like a channel. It's the right place for a channel. If I were digging one, this is where I'd dig a channel. So. . ." "So it's probably the channel?" Selethen said. Gundar grinned at him. "Either that or it's a duck.

  John Flanagan

  Wise, Mother, Ducks

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• Last words of wisdom.If your parents are screewed up, don't turn into them. Use them as an example of what not to be- be yourself instead. you can overcome your fears, you can change, you can make your life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybr not tomorrow but soon. So hang in.

  Susane Colasanti

  Being Yourself, Parent, Overcoming

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• Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Evil, Ethics, Morality

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

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• In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe.

  George Saunders

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  "Nonsense: The Power of Not Knowing". Book by Jamie Holmes, 2015.

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