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Points Quotes by William James
- 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…
- To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,…
- It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off…
- But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason…
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