Quote

True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse.

William James

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
W. James
Useful
Verbal
Lead
Intercourse
True
Flowing
Ideas
Consistency
Wells
Quarters
Human
Stability
Humans
Sensible
Well
Directly
Conceptual

More quotes by William James

Image
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
William James
Image
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
Image
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
William James
Image
In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
William James
Image
... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.
William James
Image
In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
William James
Image
From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.
William James
Image
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
William James
Image
Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.
William James
Image
The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
William James
Image
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James
Image
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
William James
Image
Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.
William James
Image
It is your friends who make your world.
William James
Image
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
William James
Image
What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S.... Yet I believe (or suspect) that ours is eventually the bigger destiny, if we can only succeed in living up to it.
William James
Image
Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.
William James
Image
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
William James
Image
Every claim creates an obligation.
William James
Image
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
William James