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Isocrates Quotes: It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
         

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.


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Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.



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This page presents the quote "It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.". Author of this quote is Isocrates. This quote is about importance, future, plans, success, activity,.