William James Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.”

“I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.”

“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”

“Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.”

“Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.”

“To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.”

“The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.”

“Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.”

“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”

“Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.”