A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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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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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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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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Science, 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.
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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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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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