Famous Quotes / William James
150 Quotations by William James
- 141. We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so who ...
- 142. We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, m ...
- 143. What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the ph ...
- 144. Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to length ...
- 145. When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material u ...
- 146. When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.
- 147. Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, ...
- 148. Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price o ...
- 149. Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha ...
- 150. Wisdom is learning what to overlook.