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Some Quotes by William James
- From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with…
- 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…
- But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst…
- 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…
- The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision,…
- To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,…
- Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson…
- Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each…
- The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly…
- A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such…
- To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
- We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the…
- To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
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- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater
- All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch
- What four realms? (Amanda) Time, space, earth, and dreams. (Talon) Okay, now that is scary. Some of you guys walk through time?… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
- The next time someone gets in my face to fight, I'll show them pictures on my phone of an ant I once… — Nikhil Saluja