"Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and……" — William James
"Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
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484 Quotes by William James
William James has 484 quotes on this site.
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I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting…
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to…
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Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully…
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It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of…
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Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already…
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An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort…
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More Always Everywhere Quotes
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All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always…
— Clement of Alexandria
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Opportunities are always everywhere, learn to see and create them.
— Jacob Gelt Dekker
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I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering.…
— David Hockney
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
— William James
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If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and…
— Graham Greene
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I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh…
— Graham Greene
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I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses. We…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life,…
— Orison Swett Marden
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To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
— William Kingdon Clifford
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
— William Kingdon Clifford
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