Words Of Wisdom Quotes - Page 35

• I would bet that the average teenager in this country has not used the word 'wisdom' in the past year

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Teenager, Past

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• The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

  Robert South

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.318

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• I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

  Charles Dickens

  Trust, Honesty, Business

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.11724, Delphi Classics

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• If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Reality, African American

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Sermon at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. February 28, 1954.

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• The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

  Audre Lorde

  Peace, Power, House

  Title of essay (1979)

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  Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

  Malcolm X

  Respect, Peace, Hands

  "Message to the Grass Roots" (speech), Detroit, Mich., 10 Nov. 1963

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• No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

  Henry Miller

  Leadership, Wise, Wisdom

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.122, New Directions Publishing

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• The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Broken, Doe, World

  "Mind and matter". Book by Erwin Schrödinger, 1958.

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• The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Two, Sincerity, Scientist

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

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• A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

  Charles Dickens

  Speech, Earnest

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.38

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• So often we think that to be encouragers we have to produce great words of wisdom when, in fact, a few simple syllables of sympathy and an arm around the shoulder can often provide much needed comfort.

  Florence Littauer

  Encouragement, Simple, Thinking

  Florence Littauer (1989). “Silver Boxes: The Gift of Encouragement”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.

  Plato

  Heart, Reality, Titles

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• But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Animal, Giving, Soul

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• Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Mean, Simple, Mirrors

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• Be naked in the splendor of the truth of who you are.

  Gangaji

  Naked, Splendor, Who You Are

  Gangaji (2007). “You Are That”, p.192, Sounds True

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• Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Selfishness, Weakness

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.127

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• No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  African American, Matter, Way

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.109, University of Illinois Press

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• Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Positive, Wisdom, Famous Inspirational

  "3 Inspiring Business Lessons From Billionaire Media Mogul Oprah Winfrey" by Kim Lachance Shandrow, www.foxnews.com. August 2, 2016.

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• Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Husband, Father, Women

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.412

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• Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

  Richard Wright

  Integrity, Men, Self

  Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.366, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

  Charles Dickens

  Book, Beer, Looks

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Trifles make the sum of life.

  Charles Dickens

  Classic, Trifles

  David Copperfield ch. 53 (1850)

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• All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

  Charles Dickens

  Self, Crowns, Coins

  Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.254

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• I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

  Emily Dickinson

  Common Sense, Profound, Claims

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• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Following the Equator ch. 11, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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