No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
WILLIAM JAMESMost unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
More William James Quotes
-
-
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
WILLIAM JAMES -
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
WILLIAM JAMES -
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
WILLIAM JAMES -
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
WILLIAM JAMES -
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
WILLIAM JAMES -
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
WILLIAM JAMES -
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
WILLIAM JAMES -
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
WILLIAM JAMES -
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
WILLIAM JAMES -
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
WILLIAM JAMES -
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
WILLIAM JAMES -
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Individuality is founded in feeling
WILLIAM JAMES -
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
WILLIAM JAMES -
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
WILLIAM JAMES -
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
WILLIAM JAMES -
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
WILLIAM JAMES