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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William James

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Basketball Dream Perseverance
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

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