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William James has 511 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
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Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
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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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It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,…
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Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The…
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An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a…
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To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.
— Jennifer Aniston
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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise
— Hans Selye
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This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved,…
— George Crabbe
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Over-excitement and boredom are states of mind which I equally shun.
— E. V. Knox
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Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from…
— J. Reuben Clark
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You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
— William Shakespeare
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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
— Ernest Hemingway
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If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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