Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
More William James Quotes
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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