The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
More William James Quotes
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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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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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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