black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

William James

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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Discovery Men Mind
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
WILLIAM JAMES

Becoming Great Focus Woods
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
WILLIAM JAMES

Community Friendship Sympathy
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 JAMES

Islands Roots Sea Underground
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
WILLIAM JAMES

Finals Lasts Men
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
WILLIAM JAMES

Opposites Statement Truth
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
WILLIAM JAMES

Believe Government Philosophical
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
WILLIAM JAMES

Decision Order Responsibility
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMES

Heroism Reality Theatre
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
WILLIAM JAMES

Accepting Daring Ideas
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
WILLIAM JAMES

Anything Dream Everything May
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
WILLIAM JAMES

Combine Enough Fact Facts
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Facts Insanity Vision
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
WILLIAM JAMES

Asceticism Ease Expression
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
WILLIAM JAMES

Faith Hypothesis
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
WILLIAM JAMES

Ethics Philosophical Quality

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More William James Quotes