150 Quotations by William James
- 1. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

- 2. A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid ...

- 3. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices.

- 4. A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a litt ...

- 5. A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes ...

- 6. A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if th ...

- 7. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

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

- 9. Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

- 10. Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

- 11. Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the act ...

- 12. All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.

- 13. An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

- 14. As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

- 15. As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, c ...

- 16. As-if principle: If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

- 17. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

- 18. Belief creates the actual fact.

- 19. Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of o ...

- 20. Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of ...

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