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Form Quotes by William James
- If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain…
- Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
- There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep…
- We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead…
- Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness…
- Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the…
- The self-same atoms which, chaotically dispersed, made the nebula, now, jammed and temporarily caught in peculiar positions, form our brains; and the 'evolution' of brains,…
- Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
- Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by…
- All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
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