William James

We all have reservoirs of life to draw upon, of which we do not dream.

William James

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.

William James

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

William James

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.

William James

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

William James

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

William James

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

William James

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

William James

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

William James

When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

William James