The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

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

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” — William James

Half the skill of being educated is learning what you can ignore.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. — ROBERT J. SAWYER, Calculating God

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

We lived, as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

The art is in knowing how to ask.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously.

It's knowing one's ... limitations ... and then ignoring them.

Art is in
what you leave out.