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" Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. "

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" Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. "

" Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet. "

" O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! "

" All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. "

" Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. "

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" I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. "

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" Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" 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. "

" The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. "

" There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. "

Logan Pearsall Smith

" If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production. "

" If you want to go east, don't go west. "

" The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. "

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

" The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. "

Honore de Balzac

" What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. "

Shinichi Suzuki

" Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!' "

" Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. "

Bertrand Russell

" 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. "

" Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. "

" The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" 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

" Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. "

" The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. "

" Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. "

" When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds. "

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

" 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. "

" He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. "