It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
William JamesAn act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
William JamesAll of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
William JamesThe 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.
William JamesHardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.
William James