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- To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- A theory must be tempered with reality.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
- The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
- All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.
- J. William Fulbright (1905 - ), March 27, 1964
- The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
- Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)
- There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
- Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)
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