The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

Quote by William James

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Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself...

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself...

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the...

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the...

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker...

The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker...

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive,...

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive,...

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life...

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life...

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but...

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but...

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God...

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God...

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of...

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of...

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in...

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in...

Softly along the road of evening, In a twilight dim with rose, Wrinkled with age,...

Softly along the road of evening, In a twilight dim with rose, Wrinkled with age,...