Wisdom Quote by Charles Dickens — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.”

“A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.”

“[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.”

“The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.”

“[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.”

“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

“True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.”

“القوة الجديدة التي يخلقها "العلم" تكون خيّرة بقدر الحكمة التي يتميز بها الإنسان ، وتكون شريرة بقدر ما في الإنسان من حمق !”

“Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.”

“Emptiness is this world’s greatest discovery. Who has chosen this kind world for us and why?”

“The most talented people are always the nicest.”