All William James Quotes
- All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of… All
- I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena… Belief
- ...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore… Abuse
- There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough. Absurd
- Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take… Courage
- In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering. Education
- Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture. Any
- Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me. Character
- We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever… Character
- Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Brings
- Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly… All
- The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. Greatest
- Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of… Action
- Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. Acceptance
- Truth is what works. Truth
- Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. Many
- The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease. Bitch
- The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons Assignable
- Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will… Beings
- Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas Boiling