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William James Inspirational Quotes (640)

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We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.
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What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of the captivity, but those of the days of Solomon 's glory are those from whom the pessimistic utterances in our Bible come.
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The trail of the human serpent is thus over everything.
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
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There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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The bottom of being is left logically opaque to us, a datum in the strict sense of the word, something we simply come upon and find, and about which (if we wish to act) we should pause and wonder as little as possible. In this confession lies the lasting truth of empiricism.
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Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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No decision is, in itself, a decision.
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I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.
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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
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Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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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 becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.
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Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.
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