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One Quotes by William James
- The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of…
- The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and…
- Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain…
- There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
- As the brain changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness,…
- Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.
- The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of…
- We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead…
- 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…
- The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by…
- The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
- Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness…
- If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances…
- We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel…
- Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
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