The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
More William James Quotes
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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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.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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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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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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