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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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If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.
— Charles Bukowski
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Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already…
— Rajneesh
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Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is…
— Poul Anderson
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The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to…
— Helen Keller
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Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.
— Paulo Coelho
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Sometimes the warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once. 'There is a bridge that links what I do…
— Paulo Coelho
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We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn,…
— Pierre Bonnard
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Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate…
— Ivan Pavlov
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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is…
— Fred Rogers
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