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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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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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Age
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. – William James

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Truth
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. – Robert H. Schuller

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Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesnt all have to be by tomorrow! – William Eardley IV

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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. – William Butler Yeats

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Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over. – Douglas Wilson

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Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. – David Hume

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Envy is ignorance. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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