TIMELY WISDOM

Monday, July 9, 2012

Quotes William James





« The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. »
William James

« Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. »
William James

« Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. »
William James

« Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. »
William James

« The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. »
William James

« There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. »
William James

« Belief creates the actual fact. »
William James

« The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. »
William James

« A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. »
William James

« I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing. »
William James




« Truth is what works. »
William James

« Time itself comes in drops. »
William James

« Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. »
William James

« A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. »
William James

« We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. »
William James

« Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. »
William James

« Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. »
William James

« Wisdom is learning what to overlook. »
William James

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

« Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. »
William James




« Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. »
William James

« We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable. »
William James

« Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. »
William James

« To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. »
William James

« Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. »
William James

« I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing. »
William James

« When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice. »
William James

« An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. »
William James

« Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. »
William James

« Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. »
William James





« When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice. »
William James

« To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. »
William James

« An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. »
William James

« Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake. »
William James

« The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. »
William James

« Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. »
William James

« Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. »
William James

« An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. »
William James

« The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. »
William James

« If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. »
William James






« Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. »
William James

« In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. »
William James

« An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. »
William James

« Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. »
William James

« To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. »
William James

« The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. »
William James

« Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. »
William James

« Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. »
William James

« Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake. »
William James

« In business for yourself, not by yourself. »
William James





« I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing. »
William James

« Wisdom is learning what to overlook. »
William James

« Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake. »
William James

« The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. »
William James

« A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. »
William James

« To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. »
William James

« Belief creates the actual fact. »
William James

« Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. »
William James





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