To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
WILLIAM JAMESMen’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
More William James Quotes
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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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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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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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.
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