Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
WILLIAM JAMESWe want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
More William James Quotes
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New habits can be launched.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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History is a bath of blood.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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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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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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