In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
WILLIAM JAMESGenius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
More William James Quotes
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Men’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.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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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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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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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.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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