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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

William James

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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anticipation Brave Use
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
WILLIAM JAMES

Country Teacher Teaching
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
WILLIAM JAMES

Cases Matter Philosophical
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
WILLIAM JAMES

Data Powerful Science
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
WILLIAM JAMES

Accepting Daring Ideas
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Attention Belief Facts
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
WILLIAM JAMES

Islands Roots Sea Underground
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
WILLIAM JAMES

Failure Lows Person
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
WILLIAM JAMES

Devil Feet Long
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe Ideas Truth
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
WILLIAM JAMES

Differences Extensions Relation
Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
WILLIAM JAMES

Basketball Dream Perseverance
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
WILLIAM JAMES

Good Hell Intention Intentions
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
WILLIAM JAMES

Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
WILLIAM JAMES

Natural Political Politics
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
WILLIAM JAMES

Attention Education Excellence

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