Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
WILLIAM JAMESFaith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
More William James Quotes
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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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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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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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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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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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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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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