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Thought Quotes by William James
- I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
- 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…
- Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself…
- We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead…
- The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this…
- Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
- Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what…
- I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as…
- To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
- The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
More Thought Quotes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Dream Gives Rise To Hope, Hope Inspires Effort, Efforts Result In Success.. So, Dreams R Root Of Success. Let All Your Dream… — Ritu Ghatourey