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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - Wi

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. – William James

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[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

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Thinking
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William James
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good ones sentiments may be, if one have not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, ones character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With good intentions, hell proverbially is paved. – William James

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Intention
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. – William James

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Men
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Wisdom
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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

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Wisdom

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom. – Ezra Stiles

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Wisdom

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. – James Gibbons Huneker

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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity. – Mary Garden

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We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people. – Mira Sorvino

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Players: A vital part of any sporting event, they entertain the crowd in the intervals between timeouts so the cheerleaders can take a well-earned break. – Author Unknown

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