Art Quote by William James Download Open image ““The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Wisdom
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing that solutions don’t come from individuals, but rather experiences.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“The wise ones usually say that there is knowing in the knowing that one doesn't know.” — Unathi Magubeni Copy Share Image
As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the… — William James Copy Share Image
“A wise person is the one who knows what he knows and what he does not know.” — Mohith Agadi Copy Share Image
“No matter the amount of knowledge and wisdom you acquire in life, you can never be wiser than wise itself.” — Author Abdulazeez Henry Musa Copy Share Image
“Knowing something is not enough, doing something with what you know is the key. After all, that’s where wisdom comes from.” — Alexis G. Roldan Copy Share Image
“The mark of a wise person is being able to reach beyond for the truth, to admit they can learn more than they already… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“The wise ones say that there is knowing in the knowing that one doesn’t know. [122]” — Unathi Magubeni Copy Share Image
“A wise person alway learn from every thing at any given morment.” — Hamzat Haruna Ribah Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
