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Kind 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…
- All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less…
- In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at…
- When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius…
- Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own…
- Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences…
- Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.
- I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena…
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