Knows Quotes by William James

It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

— William James

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

— William James

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

— William James

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

— William James

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

— William James

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

— William James

To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe.

— William James

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

— William James

In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we…

— William James

In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the…

— William James

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

— William James

Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably…

— William James

For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who…

— William James

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and…

— William James

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive…

— William James

The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of…

— William James

In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him…

— William James

When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of…

— William James

Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call…

— William James

We ought, all of us, to realize each other in this intense, pathetic, and important way. If you say that this is…

— William James

Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character…

— William James

All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them.…

— William James

The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying…

— William James

Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day…

— William James

Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is…

— William James

Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths…

— William James