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William James Quotes

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: January 11, 1842 - August 26, 1910

Topics

Believe Wrong Always Anything

A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.

Life Woman Me Tears Face You

There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.

Write Always Everything Fiction Bit

I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

Fear Mother Play Hard Rope Eat

When I need to get away from my desk, I tend to take walks or go places. I also like to bead - working with beads to make jewellery.

Desk Go Places Need Take Working

I've found that most successful people do things because they get personal satisfaction from the work that they do.

Work People Satisfaction Personal

I don't think we'll ever be millionaires. I don't really think about the future.

Future Think About Ever Really

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.

Heart Eyes Man Believe Will Him

The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.

Dennis Kucinich

Fear War Rich Tax Poor Driven

I think that the world is very complex. I think that the movie is a good way to ask questions. To give answers, you would write a lot of books.

Denis Villeneuve

Good World Think Questions You Way

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

Fear Path Mind Ideas Stand Up Speak

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

Today Politics Competition Political

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

Richard Paul Evans

Romantic Kind President Same Happen

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