Quote by William James
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a targ

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate! – William James

Other quotes by William James

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James

Category:
Life
Read Quote

Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. – William James

Category:
Knowledge
Read Quote

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. – William James

Category:
Truth
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Books
category

Sit bona librorum copia. – Horace (There are plenty of good books. Let me have a good supply of books.)

Category:
Books

Christie loved books… This amusement lightened many heavy hours, peopled the silent house with troops of friends, and, for a time, was the joy of her life. – Louisa May Alcott, “Servant,” Work: A Story of Experience, 1873

Category:
Books

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. – Washington Irving

Category:
Books

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh. – Judah Ibn Tibbon

Category:
Books

Random Quotes

Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience. – Azel Backus

Category:
Truth

Its really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how youre going to get it to these people. – Bob Geldof

Category:
Politics

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didnt exactly win us any friends. – Fred Frith

Category:
Politics

The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven. – Proverb

Category:
Hypocrisy