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Mental Quotes by William James
- It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
- 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 the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if…
- Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets…
- Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he…
- The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
- When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and…
- Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and…
- I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which,…
- The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
- Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
- One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental…
- Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered…
- Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This…
- Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of…
- All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is…
More Mental Quotes
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- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
- I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good… — Alan Ball
- I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you… — Roseanne Barr
- When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have… — Drew Barrymore
- A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is… — Robert Foster Bennett
- Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing. — Diane Abbott