Inspirational Quotations by William James
- If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough
will change a past or future event, then you are residing
on another planet with a different reality system.
- Genius means little more than
the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings
can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
- The art of being wise is
the art of knowing what to overlook.
- Act as though what you do makes a difference. It does.
- Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society,
its most precious conservative agent.
It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance,
and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
- Only necessity understood, and bondage to
the highest is identical with true freedom.
- The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.