It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything …

William James
411 citations
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. ✨ William James (2015). Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays, p.9, 谷月社
Philosophy
28

More Author Quotes

Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will … ▶
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth i … ▶
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of trigonometry, the facts of history, the prop … ▶
Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which spe … ▶
The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. ✨ William James (2015). Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays, p.9, 谷月社

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes