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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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An old American patriot described today's situation very well. As America fought for its independence, Benjamin Franklin said, "we must all hang…
— John F. Kerry
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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a…
— Diane Ackerman
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We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.
— Benjamin Franklin
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When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in…
— Wilfrid
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If we don't hang together, by Heavens we shall hang separately
— Benjamin
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Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to…
— William James
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We must be unanimous; there must be no pulling different ways; we must hang together.
— John Hancock
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We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
— Benjamin Franklin
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If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Yeah, well, I guess I feel like all of us misfits need to hang together. At least that way we don't swing…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.
— Diane Ackerman
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