Almost every famous person at least once in their life said something that was remembered by the society, and considered meaningful, important or just funny. Those quotations can be mentioned in various situations. Often they are used in speeches or in a humorous way. In order to find some of them grub around.
William james
Date: January 9, 2007
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out theyve got a second. Give your dreams all youve got and youll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.