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" Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. "
Will Rogers
Run
Right
You
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" Be as you wish to seem. "
Socrates
You
Wish
Wisdom
" Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. "
David Icke
Oak
Mighty
Today
" Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet. "
Robert Orben
Feet
Wisdom
Sometimes
" O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! "
Walter Scott
First
Weave
Web
" All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. "
Alexis Carrel
Moments
Wisdom
People
" Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Justice
Rather
May
" I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. "
Will Rogers
Funny
Political Party
Political
" Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? "
Friedrich Nietzsche
Raven
Inspired
Earth
" The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom. "
Noreena Hertz
Us
Intelligence
Wisdom
" The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. "
Dean Inge
Common Sense
Wise
Wisdom
" There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. "
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Forward
Standing
Going
" It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. "
Logan Pearsall Smith
Great
Wisdom
Man
" If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production. "
Will Rogers
Him
You
Sell
" If you want to go east, don't go west. "
Ramakrishna
West
East
Go
" The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. "
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Beginning
Desire
Wisdom
" The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. "
Honore de Balzac
Serve
Love
Chivalry
" What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. "
Shinichi Suzuki
Love
Life
Wisdom
" Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!' "
Bill Bradley
Us
Wisdom
Escape
" Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. "
Bertrand Russell
Wisdom
Feeling
Time
" The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. "
Pierre Charron
Wisdom
Know
Good
" Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. "
Sophocles
Wisdom
Quick
Decisions
" The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Rules
Man
Young Man
" Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. "
Charles Spurgeon
Great
Men
Wise
" Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. "
William Cowper
Wisdom
Knowledge
Humble
" The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. "
Milan Kundera
Wisdom
Question
People
" Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. "
Mary Astell
Unhappy
Wisdom
Good
" When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds. "
Will Rogers
Gets
Ignorance
Knows
" The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. "
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Happy
Wisdom
Greatness
" We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom. "
F. Sionil Jose
Humility
Wisdom
Mistake
" He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. "
James Huneker
Fool
Direction
He