Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
WILLIAM JAMESOnce you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
More William James Quotes
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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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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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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History is a bath of blood.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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