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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

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. – William James

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Pure experience is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. – William James

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A mistake is simply another way of doing things. – Katharine Graham

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

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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. – Evelyn Waugh

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Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. – Aeschylus

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