To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
WILLIAM JAMESIndividuality is founded in feeling
More William James Quotes
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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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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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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