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William James Quotes

«Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | Keywords: hereafter
«We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | Keywords: fully, grasp, import, imported, imports, notion, of import, opposite, statement, The Statement, true statement, untrue
«We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | Keywords: falsehood, ready
«Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | Keywords: at least, each day, hates, practice
«Belief creates the actual fact.»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | Keywords: actual, belief, creates
«Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | About: People | Keywords: find out, wind
«The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | About: Education | Keywords: College education
«Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | About: Optimism, Pessimism | Keywords: optimism, pessimism, weakness
«The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | About: Life | Keywords: outlast, outlasted, outlasting, outlasts, spend, The Great
«Wisdom is learning what to overlook.»
Author: William James (Philosopher, Psychologist) | Keywords: learning, overlook, overlooking, overlooks
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