The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMESHistory is a bath of blood.
More William James Quotes
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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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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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
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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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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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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