Charles Dickens Quotes, Men Quotes, Words Of Wisdom Quotes

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Class Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

"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."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Home Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Weather Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Games Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Lying Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

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?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Wise Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes , Principles Quotes

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Rights Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes , Starting Quotes

The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes , Teaching Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ovid Quotes , Time Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Reality Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Pity Love Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Children Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes , Said Quotes

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes , Speech Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Talking Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Men Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes

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!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Self Quotes , Words Of Wisdom Quotes