If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
WILLIAM JAMESWisdom is learning what to overlook.
More William James Quotes
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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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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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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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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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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