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Learning Quotes by William James
- Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he…
- Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
- The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what…
- The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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