There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.

There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.