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Good Quotes by William James
- To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
- Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
- There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
- Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will…
- If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at…
- Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing…
- When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain…
- A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific…
- The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.
- Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
- The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.
- We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
- You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject…
- Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.
- As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it…
- No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken…
- We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the…
- The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
- If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
- A great nation is not saved by wars, it is saved by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly;…
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