"Compared to what we ought to be, we…" — William James

"Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake."

— William James

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484 Quotes by William James

William James has 484 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of…
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting…
No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to…
Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully…
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of…
Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already…
An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort…

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It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. — Roger Babson
It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. — Abu Bakr
A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the… — Honore de Balzac
I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me… — Emmanuelle Beart
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings
I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake. — Lewis Black
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. — Erma Bombeck
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself… — Dale Carnegie
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In… — Marc Chagall
I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's… — Harlan Coben
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we… — Dan Wakefield

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