Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
More William James Quotes
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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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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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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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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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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