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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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Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.
— Arthur Keith
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The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded…
— L. Harrison Matthews
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We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian…
— Unknown Author
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Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . .…
— William James
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A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.
— Atle Selberg
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I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved…
— Julian Coolidge
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Believing in evolution is believing in the unproved, while believing in Christ is believing in the proven.
— Edwin Louis Cole
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Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade-a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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