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" Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. "

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" Start wide, expand further, and never look back. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

" But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place. "

" It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. "

William Ralph Inge

" Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. "

" Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better. "

Kay Redfield Jamison

" Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light. "

" Rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us survive at a time when an increasingly balkanized world so badly needs it. "

" Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work. "

" And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school. "

" If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. "

William Butler Yeats

" The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. "

" There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment. "

" The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. "

" If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. "

" Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. "

" The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. "

" I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog. "

" My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete. "

Robert Kiyosaki

" The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. "

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

" We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it. "

Radhanath Swami

" Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. "

" Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. "

Christopher Reeve

" Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

" They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom. "

Friedrich Schiller

" When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. "

George C. Marshall

" To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. "

William Hazlitt

" Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero