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Wisdom is learning what to overlook. - William James

Wisdom is learning what to overlook. – William James

Other quotes by William James

Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. – William James

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work
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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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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. – William James

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Faith
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Other Quotes from
Learning
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I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones whod spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it. – Paul Merton

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Learning

Everybodys a work in progress. Im a work in progress. I mean, Ive never arrived… Im still learning all the time. – Renee Fleming

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Learning

Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal. – Suzanne Fields

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Learning

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning. – Dennis Brown

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Learning

Random Quotes

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didnt want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite. – Bill Pullman

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Romantic

The poor dont know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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finance

Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam. – Muqtada al Sadr

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Change

Music is all about leadership and there aint really a lot of leaders. – Young Jeezy

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Leadership