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Ideas Quotes by William James
- An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
- 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…
- Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field…
- You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock…
- Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several…
- To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,…
- Truth in our ideas means their power to work.
- Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with…
- Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely…
- Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.
- Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and…
- An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
- The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
- Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's…
- So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or…
- A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
More Ideas Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong