A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
WILLIAM JAMESA new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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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 world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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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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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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History is a bath of blood.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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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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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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