Below are the best quotes we could find featuring william james about awareness.
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The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
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Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.’
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.
To know is one thing, and to know for certain that we know is another.
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