The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth happens to an idea
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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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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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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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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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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