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.
WILLIAM JAMESSo 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.
WILLIAM JAMESMan lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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.
WILLIAM JAMESA chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
WILLIAM JAMESThe emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
WILLIAM JAMESScience, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMESThe first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMESThe ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
WILLIAM JAMESGenius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
WILLIAM JAMESPhilosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
WILLIAM JAMESTo consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
WILLIAM JAMESDemocracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
WILLIAM JAMESAll of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
WILLIAM JAMESExperience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
WILLIAM JAMESThe most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
WILLIAM JAMESEffort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
WILLIAM JAMES