Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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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
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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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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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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