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More Quotes from William James:
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
Time itself comes in drops.
William James
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
William James
Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.
William James
The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
William James
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