Quotes by William James
3 quotes by William James (died 1910), taken from 3 works. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.
Works quoted: The Will to Believe, Talks to Teachers on Psychology and Talks to Students.
The Will to Believe
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“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
Talks to Teachers on Psychology
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“Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.”
Talks to Students
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“Neither the whole of truth nor the whole of good is revealed to any single observer, although each observer gains a partial superiority of insight from the peculiar position in which he stands. Even prisons and sick-rooms have their special revelations.”