An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
More William James Quotes
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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