William James
William James
William Jameswas an American philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician. The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States, James was one of the leading thinkers of the late nineteenth century and is believed by many to be one of the most influential philosophers the United States has ever produced, while others have labelled him the "Father of American psychology". Along with Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey, he is considered to be...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth11 January 1842
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
William James quotes about
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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.
It is your friends who make your world.
A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Effort is a measure of a Man.
The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.