William James

"For the moment, the mightiest of sciences is psychology."

"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."

"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it."

"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."

"Teaching should produce not learned men but thinking men."

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

"The most any one of us can do is to give a definite answer by framing our life in one way or another."

"Common sense is the measure of the possible."

"Spiritual fact should always be an aid to physical hygiene."

"The only way out is through."

"Plasticity, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once."

"The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion."

"The moral equivalent of war."

"Patience is the art of hoping."

"There is but one unconditional commandment, which is that we should seek incessantly, with fear and trembling, so to vote and to act as to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see."

"A mind once stretched by a new experience never returns to its original dimensions."

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

"If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally at stake, I do not see how we should ever contrive to feel as if it were so."

"Multiply in number as they are, and formidable though the facts of nature are, I am still able to look on the world as a moral order."

"The mystery of life is that it is so given over to trifles."

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

"Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."

"One of the deepest principles of our nature is this craving to be appreciated."

"The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught."

"There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important."

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country turns out."

"The deepest question of philosophy is why we do anything at all."

"We are not only thinkers but also agents."

"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."

"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."