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Quote by William James
Wisdom is learning what to overlook. - William James

Wisdom is learning what to overlook. – William James

Other quotes by William James

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. – William James

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good
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William James
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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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William James
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is mans lack of faith in his true Self. – William James

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Failure
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Other Quotes from
Learning
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I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late 40s and early 50s was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival. – Angela Davis

Category:
Learning

Football management is such a pressurised thing – horseracing is a release. Im also learning to play the piano – Im quite determined – its another release from the pressure of my job. – Alex Ferguson

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Learning

Women have to harness their power – its absolutely true. Its just learning not to take the first no. And if you cant go straight ahead, you go around the corner. – Cher

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Learning

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do. – Nan Fairbrother

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Learning

Random Quotes

Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else. – Leo Aikman

Category:
Criticism

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. – Nicolaus Copernicus

Category:
Fear

Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us. – Mitt Romney

Category:
Freedom

Freedom is from within. – Frank Lloyd Wright

Category:
Freedom