William James on discovery
William James50 quotes“One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.”
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
William JamesWilliam James We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
William JamesWilliam James If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
William JamesWilliam James The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
William JamesWilliam James Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
William JamesWilliam James Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
William JamesWilliam James With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
William JamesWilliam James Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
William JamesWilliam James Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
William JamesWilliam James If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
William JamesWilliam James We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
William JamesWilliam James 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 JamesWilliam James The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
William JamesWilliam James We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
William JamesWilliam James Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
William JamesWilliam James The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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What matters are not the truths other people tell us or the practices that we are able to mimic, but the spiritual discoveries we make through personal investigation.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity , of things one is not in quest of.
Adrian BejanAdrian Bejan Painting is self-discovery.
Adolph GottliebAdolph Gottlieb This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous
Adolf von BaeyerAdolf von Baeyer The ‘Mythbusters’ crew, we monitor the Discovery boards, we look for the new ideas that are being forwarded on those boards, and we keep track of what’s going on, we keep updated.
Adam SavageAdam Savage The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
Adam ShankmanAdam Shankman Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc…
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