Quotes By Author: william james
“In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.”
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“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.”
“Belief creates the actual fact.”
“If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
“إن بيننا وبين الله رابطة لا تنفصم، فإذا نحن أخضعنا أنفسنا لإشرافه – سبحانه وتعالى – تحققت أمنياتنا وآمالنا كلها.”
“Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.”
“the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease”
“Pragmatism asks its usual question. “Grant an idea or belief to be true,” it says, “what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?”
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”