All William James Quotes
- The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it. Bad
- Instinct leads, logic does but follow. Doe
- To kill time is not murder, it's suicide. Inspirational
- Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really… Background
- The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind Inspirational
- Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground. Co
- The soul is stronger than its surroundings. Inspirational
- The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated. Appreciated
- Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with… Bottom
- The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other. Co
- The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly… Burden
- The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which… Attention
- An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses. Both
- We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. Daily
- Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. Circle
- A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first. Achieve
- The education of attention would be an education par excellence Attention
- There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a… Account
- Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future… Bearing
- If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me. Appreciation