black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

William James

What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe Sound Truth
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
WILLIAM JAMES

Mean Reality Truth
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
WILLIAM JAMES

Common Dance Humor Sense
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
WILLIAM JAMES

Agony Individual Lonely
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attend Moments Reality
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
WILLIAM JAMES

Intellectual Men Order
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
WILLIAM JAMES

Attitude Procrastination Tasks
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
WILLIAM JAMES

Civilization Class Fear
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
WILLIAM JAMES

Growth Men Years
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
WILLIAM JAMES

Effects Intellect Shows
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
WILLIAM JAMES

Becoming Gone Instant
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
WILLIAM JAMES

Business Inspirational Philosophical
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
WILLIAM JAMES

Accepting Daring Ideas
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Alive Cost Wall
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
WILLIAM JAMES

God Principles Theism
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
WILLIAM JAMES

Fear Happiness Stress

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More William James Quotes