Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.


Carl Sandburg

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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
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He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
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The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor!
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Inaction or failure to discern must never be mistaken for silent wisdom.
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Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
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The last three or four games we have come out of the box pretty fast. Hopefully we can keep it up. T...
LARRY SANDBURG
That wasn't the same team we played at the beginning of the year. But hitting it like that, we were ...
LARRY SANDBURG
When you've had as many wins as we've had, our confidence has been up. But they've got a great team....
LARRY SANDBURG
This will help us mentally. To play this bad defensively and win helps.
LARRY SANDBURG
They have a real good team. So did Sickles. We played real well in this tournament. It was fun.
LARRY SANDBURG
There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation...
CARL SAGAN
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniu...
CARL SAGAN
In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to sav...
CARL SAGAN
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
CARL SAGAN
The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there&#...
CARL SAGAN
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
CARL REINER
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of ...
CARL JUNG
The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen ...
CARL JUNG
The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for...
CARL JUNG
Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far ...
CARL JUNG
I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, o...
CARL JUNG
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
CARL JUNG
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overc...
CARL JUNG
In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I co...
CARL JUNG
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They ...
CARL JUNG
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average consci...
CARL JUNG
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
CARL JUNG
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect ...
CARL JUNG
Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hop...
CARL JUNG
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a compreh...
CARL JUNG
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
CARL JUNG
A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered...
CARL JUNG
Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has ...
CARL JUNG
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
CARL JUNG
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
CARL JUNG
There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
CARL JUNG
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
CARL JUNG
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
CARL JUNG