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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
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Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.
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Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.
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There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
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Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.
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The old question of whether there is design is idle. The real question is what is the world, whether or not it have a designer--and that can be revealed only by the study of all nature's particulars.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.
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It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.
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To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
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Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
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The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
William James