Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
WILLIAM JAMESA new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
More William James Quotes
-
-
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
WILLIAM JAMES -
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
WILLIAM JAMES -
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Truth happens to an idea
WILLIAM JAMES -
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
WILLIAM JAMES -
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMES -
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
WILLIAM JAMES -
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
WILLIAM JAMES -
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
WILLIAM JAMES