Charles Dickens Quotes

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

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• Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Wisdom
  • Generation
  • Member

• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Taken
  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

  

  Xenophon
  • Wisdom
  • Praise
  • Sounds

• If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Wisdom

• Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Become

• Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • Food
  • Water

• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Time
  • Important
  • Wisdom

• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Wisdom
  • Habit
  • Necessity

• The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Universe
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Wisdom
  • Patience

• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Done
  • Want
  • Wisdom

• If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • May
  • Technology
  • Wisdom

• Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Good
  • Light
  • Change

• If thou couldst trust, poor soul!In Him who rules the whole,Thou wouldst find peace and rest;Wisdom and sight are well, but trust is best.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Rest

• Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel cubicles, we sit cozy as kings atop 300 years of flaming carbon.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Air

• The soul has many motions, body one.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Motions

• I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

  

  Brett Somers
  • Up

• We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Issue

• Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Wisdom
  • Ancestors
  • Simile