Logo
Quote by William James
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

Other quotes by William James

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. – William James

Category:
Poverty
Author
William James
Read Quote

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. – William James

Category:
Change
Author
William James
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Wisdom
category

Though sages may pour out their wisdoms treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. – Lord Byron

Category:
Wisdom

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. – Aristotle

Category:
Wisdom

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. – Dean Inge

Category:
Wisdom

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. – Paul Ricoeur

Category:
Wisdom

Random Quotes

In riding a horse we borrow freedom. – Helen Thomson

Category:
Horses

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself. – Yoko Ono

Category:
Men

In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure. – King Hussein I

Category:
Fear

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. – J. K. Rowling

Category:
Imagination