I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMESThat which is most personal, is most interesting.
More William James Quotes
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain 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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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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