Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
WILLIAM JAMESOur intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
More William James Quotes
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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History is a bath of blood.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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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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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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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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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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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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