If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
WILLIAM JAMESFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
More William James Quotes
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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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.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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