William James's Quotes

William James's Quotes 122

Truth is what works.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and...

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to...

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse...

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got...

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to...

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines...

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life,...

Belief creates the actual fact.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at...

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over...

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that...

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this...

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