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Thinking Quotes by William James
- 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,…
- Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain…
- There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep…
- Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson…
- When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off…
- My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
- The mind is made up by what it feeds upon.
- We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
- A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
- Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
- Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment…
- Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
- The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
- To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
- Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.
- The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
- Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of…
- Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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