To wisdom belongs the

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

~ Aurelius Augustinus

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Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

~ Edwin Markham

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known — that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

~ Norman O. Brown

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.

~ Douglas William Jerrold

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.

~ Karen Horney

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.

~ John Neal

Life must be understood backwards; but… it must be lived forward.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

~ Evan Esar

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration . . and expectation.

~ Jack Nicklaus

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong without comment.

~ T. H. White

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