Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMESOnce you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
More William James Quotes
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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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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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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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 strenuous life tastes better
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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