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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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As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate! – William James

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. – William James

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I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her its important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity. – Sally Kirkland

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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. – James Truslow Adams

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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss. – Edward Young

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Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. – Greg Anderson

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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past. – Daniel Dennett

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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. – William Hazlitt

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Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies. – Joseph Barbera

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