Truth happens to an idea
WILLIAM JAMESTo neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
More William James Quotes
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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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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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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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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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