Reasonable Arguments Quotes by William James

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• I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
• Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
• To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
• There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
• Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
• No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
• Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…

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