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More William James Quotes
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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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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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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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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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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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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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