WILLIAM JAMES QUOTES

 

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

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." ~William James 

"Compared with what we ought to be, we are half awake." ~William James, "The Energies of Men" (1907)

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

"He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed." ~William James,  The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure." ~William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience." ~William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

"The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one." ~William James, The Letters of William James

"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep." ~William James

"Whenever you are in conflict with someone,  there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude." ~William James 

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BIO

Psychologist and philosopher William James (1842-1910) is often referred to as the father of American psychology. His landmark textbook, The Principles of Psychology, is considered a classic text and one of the most significant works in psychology history. In addition to his work as a teacher and researcher, James was also known as a writer of great eloquence. Wilhelm Wundt, who is called the founder of modern psychology, famously remarked that James's Principles was beautiful.

William James is considered one of the most important American thinkers of the 19th century. He influenced American writers.

William James Quotes

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." ~William James (1842 - 1910)

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It Does! " ~William James

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." ~William James

"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter." ~William James, American Psychologist (1842-1910)

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create that fact." ~William James

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." ~William James

"Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit." ~William James

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." ~William James

“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of [a person's] pride.” ~William James

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome." ~William James

"Let any one try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming." ~William James in The Principles of Psychology

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you." ~William James

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

“Often enough, our faith beforehand in an uncertifiable result is the only thing that makes the result come true.” ~William James

"Our greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." ~William James

"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it." ~William James

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." ~William James

"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. " ~William James

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlasts it." ~ William James (1842-1910)

"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude." ~William James

"The greatest discovery of my age is that men can change their circumstances by changing the attitude of their mind." ~William James

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can change his life by changing his attitude of mind." ~William James

"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." ~William James

“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” ~William James

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over the another." ~William James

"The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there." ~William James

"To change your life: start immediately; do it flamboyantly, no exceptions." ~William James

"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause." ~William James on Cause

"We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep." ~William James 

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

"Wherever you are it is your friends who make your world." ~William James

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