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William James has 511 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
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Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
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It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,…
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Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The…
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An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a…
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
— Aristotle
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
— Aesop
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We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is…
— Deepak Chopra
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At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you…
— A. Philip Randolph
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
— Quintilian
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The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain elusive in…
— Unknown Author
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The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is…
— Michael Jackson
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At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four…
— Therese of Lisieux
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For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a…
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a…
— Pope Francis
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On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."
— Yogi Berra
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