William James

Quotes

• “Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true,"it says, "what concrete difference will its bei...”
• “Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or ...”
• “Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life up...”
• “إن بيننا وبين الله رابطة لا تنفصم، فإذا نحن أخضعنا أنفسنا لإشرافه - سبحانه وتعالى - تحققت أمنياتنا وآمالنا كلها.”
• “The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”
• “The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.”
• “If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”
• “we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood”
• “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
• “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
• “It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.”
• “The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
• “A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”
• “Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
• “the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess sucess is our national disease”
• “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
• “Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.”
• “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
• “Belief creates the actual fact.”