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Quote DB :: Authors :: William James :: View Quote View Quote "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." - Copy to Clipboard   --  William James Listed in: Thinking Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 4.67  Rate Quote 6 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from William James There are no quotes for chosen author Top 5 quotes from Thinking "There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord." "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate." "I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affrims, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and also imagines and senses." "What once was thought can never be unthought." "The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."

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