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

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Source : Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 2, ch. 22

William James

#Positive Quotes #Wise Quotes #Wisdom Quotes

“Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.”
“If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?”
“To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest..”
“I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.”
“Constant Kindness can accomplish much.”
“When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.”
“Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.”

Source : Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.9, Oxford University Press
“Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it.”

Source : Julian Johnson (2011). “Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value”, p.55, Oxford University Press

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