In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

Our beliefs are really rules for action.

... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.