Time itself comes in drops.
WILLIAM JAMESWisdom is learning what to overlook.
More William James Quotes
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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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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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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