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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William James

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Enough Poor Reason
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

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