Men quotes by William James

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"Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can."
"The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own."
"I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capil"
"Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism."
"Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed."
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude."
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
"Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life."
"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."
"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
"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."