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Something Quotes by William James
- If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain…
- If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if…
- The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's,…
- The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it…
- To spend life for something which outlasts it.
- Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue…
- It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may…
- The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to…
- Life feels like a real fight - as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses,…
- Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences…
- Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes…
- The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
- Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it…
- There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad,…
- If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a…
- The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
- Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need…
More Something Quotes
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- People always follow the crowd. Be brave, Dare to do something different. Let the crowd follow you. Instead you follow them. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle