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

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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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. – William James

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Sympathy
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You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living. – Ken Burns

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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. – Pearl Bailey

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I hope Im always learning something. – Kate Winslet

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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. – William Arthur Ward

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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it — even if I have said it — unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. – Buddha

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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. – Winston Churchill

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