Quote #33

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

More from William James

  1. My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.
  2. The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, …
  3. The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
  4. A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.
  5. Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
  6. A thing is important if anyone think it important.
  7. Let any one try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occ…
  8. In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.

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