William James Quotes

As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

William James

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• I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Different
  • Art
  • Words

• The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

  

  Otto Schily
  • World
  • Feel
  • Hatred

• I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Done
  • Home
  • Always

• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • She
  • Think
  • Woman

• About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Water
  • Start
  • Drink

• The perfection of art is to conceal art.

  

  Quintilian
  • Art
  • Perfection
  • Conceal

• I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Thought

• As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Life
  • Want
  • Journal

• I was sitting alone in a grim mood – furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me – from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign – please send the bills to me... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Important
  • Friend
  • Inspired

• I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • World
  • You
  • Talk

• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Never
  • Independent
  • Fruit

• Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Beauty

• My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Life
  • Home

• Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Look
  • Chicago
  • Arizona

• I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Believe
  • Dream
  • Now

• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Friendship
  • Keep

• I don't think people understand the awesomeness of the destruction of this country - its institutions, its infrastructure, its law, its morals.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • People
  • Country
  • Law

• Things in books' clothing.

  

  Charles Lamb

• There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Politics
  • Side
  • Lot

• There's a difference between performing in Philadelphia to New York as much as a difference between playing in Luton and playing in San Francisco, y’know what I mean?

  

  Peter Daniell Doherty Babyshambles
  • Mean
  • Differences
  • Performing

• Polybius is not less express than Thucydides in asserting the principle that accurate representation of facts was the fundamental duty of the historian. He lays down that three things are requisite for performing such a task as his: the study and criticism of sources; autopsy, that is, personal knowledge of lands and places; and thirdly, political experience.

  

  J. B. Bury
  • Historian
  • Thucydides
  • Polybius

• As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

  

  William James
  • Justice
  • Politics
  • Challenges