Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.


William James Mayo

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The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breath...
WILLIAM JAMES
The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholes...
WILLIAM JAMES
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
WILLIAM JAMES
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
WILLIAM JAMES
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
WILLIAM JAMES
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference betwe...
WILLIAM JAMES
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
WILLIAM JAMES
I don't sing because I'm happy. I'm happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMES
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
WILLIAM JAMES
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the ...
WILLIAM JAMES
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our...
WILLIAM JAMES
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner ...
WILLIAM JAMES
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
WILLIAM JAMES
Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourse...
WILLIAM JAMES
See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, ob...
WILLIAM JAMES
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
WILLIAM JAMES
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this su...
WILLIAM JAMES
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical facult...
WILLIAM JAMES
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on bo...
WILLIAM JAMES
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experi...
WILLIAM JAMES
Time itself comes in drops.
WILLIAM JAMES
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
WILLIAM JAMES