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Mind Quotes by William James
- Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
- 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…
- The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's,…
- 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…
- How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we…
- There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep…
- The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this…
- 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…
- Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine…
- To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,…
- Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
- A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He…
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details…
- The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by…
- The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.
- The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
- One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their…
- The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.
- The mind is made up by what it feeds upon.
More Mind Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale
- I've known you long enough to know you try not to let your feelings show. Lately when I hold you near, I… — Superman
- Why can't I just tell you how I feel? That you're constantly on my mind...that I'm crazy about you. Maybe it's because… — Superman
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello