William James on discovery
William James50 quotes“One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.”
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
William JamesWilliam James The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
William JamesWilliam James The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
William JamesWilliam James A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
William JamesWilliam James There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
William JamesWilliam James Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
William JamesWilliam James When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
William JamesWilliam James To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
William JamesWilliam James Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
William JamesWilliam James Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
William JamesWilliam James Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
William JamesWilliam James We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
William JamesWilliam James As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
William JamesWilliam James Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
William JamesWilliam James 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 JamesWilliam James If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
William JamesWilliam James
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Will DurantWill Durant Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.
Antonie van LeeuwenhoekAntonie van Leeuwenhoek And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
Antonie van LeeuwenhoekAntonie van Leeuwenhoek I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life.
John Forbes NashJohn Forbes Nash Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will DurantWill Durant There is no better high than discovery.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson There is a great difference between discoveries and inventions. With discoveries, one can always be skeptical, and many surprises can take place. In the case of inventions, surprises can really only occur for people who have not had anything to do with it.
Werner HeisenbergWerner Heisenberg In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
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