Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
WILLIAM JAMESTo neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
More William James Quotes
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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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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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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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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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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