Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
WILLIAM JAMESOur beliefs are really rules for action.
More William James Quotes
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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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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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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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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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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