Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth is something that happens to an idea.
More William James Quotes
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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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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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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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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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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