William James Quotes About Experience

Quotes about: Experience

• Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

  William James

  Wisdom, Philosophical, Learning

• The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

  William James

  Memories, Thinking, Experience

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.129, Courier Corporation

• Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.

  William James

  Order, Mind, Experience

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.402, Courier Corporation

• You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

  William James

  Experience, Cash, Streams

  1907 Pragmatism, lecture 2.

• Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

  William James

  Experience, Boiling Over, Way

  William James (2008). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”, p.98, Cosimo, Inc.

• That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.

  William James

  Independent, Mean, Reality

  William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.27, 谷月社

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