Words Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 30

• There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.

  John Muir

  Dog, Perfect, Profound

  John Muir (1990). “Stickeen”, p.15, Heyday

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• "We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."

  Charles Dickens

  Home, Said, Duty

  Charles Dickens (1873). “Bleak House”, p.40

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• It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.

  Lord Acton

  Distance, Reality, Men

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• Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Book, Doe

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• Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Humorous, Creating

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

  David Shore

  Punishment, Rooms, Fit

  Source: collider.com

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• The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

  Charles Dickens

  Angel, Shadow, Desire

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.2608, Delphi Classics

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• Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

  Charles Dickens

  Gentleman

  'Little Dorrit' (1857) bk. 2, ch. 28 (Rigaud)

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• Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

  Pythagoras

  Learning, Forgotten

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• There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.

  Marcus Garvey

  Men, African American, World

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• A truth of the gospel is not a truth until you live it. You do not really believe in tithing until you pay it. The word of wisdom to you is not a truth of the gospel until you keep it. The Sabbath day is not a holy day unless you observe it. . . . A friend is not a friend unless you defend him.

  Harold B. Lee

  Believe, Holy Days, Pay

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• But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

  Charles Dickens

  Fighting, Shadow, Substance

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak House”, p.391

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• Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

  Ralph Ellison

  Relationship, Cousin, People

  Time Magazine, March 27, 1964.

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• The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Spiritual, Sweet

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• Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on.

  Paulo Coelho

  True Love, Inspiration, People

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 15, 2014

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• The most important word in the world of money is cash flow. The second most important word is leverage.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Business, Cash Flow, Important

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• Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

  Seneca the Younger

  Speech, Should, Straightforward

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• .... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Order, Pantheism, Whole

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• Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.

  Gautama Buddha

  Trying, Diligence, Accomplish

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• The world is continuous flux and is impermanent.

  Gautama Buddha

  Atheism, World, Flux

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• Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and cannot be subjected to rational explanation.

  Robert Moss

  Running, Determination, Intuition

  Robert Moss (2010). “The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination”, p.122, New World Library

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• Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect

  Gautama Buddha

  Respect, Buddhist, Truth

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• It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .

  Charles Dickens

  Get Well, Flower, Recovery

  Charles Dickens (1859). “Dombey and Son”, p.142

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• ...the Government must not think that they can stop this agitation. It will go on...We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in out efforts to become law-makers.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Women, Thinking, Government

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• Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.

  Olympe de Gouges

  Should

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