Quotes by : William James

Be willing to have it so acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences....

We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things....

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions....

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under....

It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence,....

All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude....

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.