"We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment……" — William James
"We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying."
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William James
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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 Cannot Help Quotes
This quote is filed under Cannot Help Quotes,
one of 239 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father.…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
— Ray Bradbury
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I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
— Charlotte Bronte
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When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help…
— David Byrne
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman…
— Lord Byron
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.
— Mark Twain
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You love simply because you cannot help it.
— Unknown Author
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Every time I see the sunshine in the bright blue sky, I cannot help but think how blessed I really…
— Donna Karan
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You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they…
— Swami Vivekananda
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