Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
More William James Quotes
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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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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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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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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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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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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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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