"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

Age, Character, Will, World

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"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

John Pople, English Scientist

Age, Class, End, Interest

"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

Norman Douglas, British Writer

Age, Character, Man

"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

Tim McGraw, American Musician

Age, Business, Dad, Cows

"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

Gregory Harrison, American Actor

Age, Guitar, Play, Poems

"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

Timothy Leary, American Educator

Age, Information, Philosophy, Talk

"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."

Tom Hanks, American Actor

Age, People, Babies, Being

"I refuse to age disgracefully in rock 'n' roll."

Ben Harper, American Musician

Age,

"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Age, Opportunity, Day, Dress

"Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?"

Joan D. Vinge, American Author

Age, Cruelty, Illness, Old

"Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'."

Steven Morrissey, English Musician

Age, Now, Sense

Explore more quotes by William James

"Four Characters in Consciousness-How does it go on? We notice immediately four important characters in the process, of which it shall be the duty of the present chapter to treat in a general way:1) Every 'state' tends to be part of a personal consciousness. 2) Within each personal consciousness states are always changing. 3) Each personal consciousness is sensibly continuous.4) It is interested in some parts of its object to the exclusion of others, and welcomes or rejects-chooses from among them, in a word-all the while."

Psychology, Consciousness, Awareness, Perception

"Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them."

Judgment, Life, Struggle, Instinct, Reason

"Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation."

Philosophy, Word, Truth, Fact

"So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience."

Learning, Education, Idea, Mind, Knowledge

"Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law."

Science, Life, Decay, Progress

"Everyone is familiar with the phenomenon of feeling more or less alive on different days. Everyone knows on any given day that there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth, but which he might display if these were greater. Most of us feel as if a sort of cloud weighed upon us, keeping us below our highest notch of clearness in discernment, sureness in reasoning, or firmness in deciding. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use."

Potential, Mind, Energy, Awareness

"Not that I would not, if I could, be both handsome ...and well-dressed, and a great athlete, and make a million a year, be a wit, a bon-vivant, and a lady-killer, as well as a philosopher; a philanthropist, statesman, warrior, and African explorer, as well as a 'tone poet' and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. Such different characters may conceivably at the outset of life be alike possible to a man. But to make any one of them actual, the rest must more or less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully, and pick out the one on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal."

Identity, Self, Choice, Life

"Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances."

Potential, Psychology, Power, Ability, Self-Awareness

"My experience is what I agree to attend to."

Mind, Awareness, Focus, Perception, Mindfulness

"Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing."

Psychology, Selection, Mental, Memory, Nothing