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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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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found…
— William James
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One good turn asketh another.
— John Heywood
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Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.
— Gautama Buddha
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Life is good and is always trying to do us a good turn if we will only allow it to do so.
— Henry Thomas Hamblin
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we…
— Thomas More
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The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.
— Baden Powell de Aquino
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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable…
— Francois Rabelais
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For what good turn? Messenger: For the best turn of the bed.
— William Shakespeare
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But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on…
— Charles de Lint
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When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike,…
— C.S. Lewis
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When you do a good turn you feel rich, even if you are broke.
— Lionel Blue
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
— Seneca the Younger
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