Great man Quote by William James Download Open image “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great man People Racism Thinking
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices. — Howard G. Hendricks Copy Share Image
Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices. — Frank Knox Copy Share Image
For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
Christians believe they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices — Bible Copy Share Image
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think,… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves. — Comtesse Diane Copy Share Image
Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Football is a team sport. I'm proud of what I achieved in my career, but I also know that I wouldn't have achieved any… — Peter Schmeichel Copy Share Image
My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it. — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it. — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
A great man isn't the one who can show all his greatness, but great man is the one who can show his Humility upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
“...a great man who is vicious will only be a great doer of evil, and a rich man who is not liberal will be… — Miguel Cervantes Copy Share Image