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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to...

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about vision, light, experience, mind

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about ability, education, glory, virtue

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

Quote by William Falconer

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Quote by Henry Ford about wealth, happiness

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about justice, violence

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson about peace, violence