Words Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 24

• ... 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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• 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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• 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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• Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

  Charles Dickens

  Surprise, Me Alone, Misfortunes

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

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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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• For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or in light of dogma-oriented wisdom.

  Janwillem van de Wetering

  Book, Men, Light

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• Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.

  Italo Calvino

  Truth, Writing, Mean

  Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• "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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• True depth of understanding is wide and steady,
  Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering,
  Words of wisdom are precise and clear

  Zhuangzi

  Wisdom, Understanding, Lazy

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

  Charles Dickens

  Animal, Savages, Lions

  Charles Dickens (1843). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.193

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