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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William James

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
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.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

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