A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
- Life
- 1842-1910
- Occupations
- philosopher, psychologist, university teacher
- Notable works
- The Principles of Psychology, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Essays in Radical Empiricism
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Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
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.
William James
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William James