To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
More William James Quotes
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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