Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
WILLIAM JAMESNo bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
More William James Quotes
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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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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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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