Connected Quote by William James Download Open image “Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Connected Educational Facts Good memories Literature Memories Memory Men Philosophy Pursuit
Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Men are born with a great asset of weak memory, especially for the bad moments. It’s not the same with women though. Good or… — Mita Jain Copy Share Image
With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Copy Share Image
A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is… — Fawn M. Brodie Copy Share Image
Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories. — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
A modern man is a man who probably doesn't remember what man knows about man. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
I don't understand why we're all connected wirelessly via a little machine that goes in our pocket, to everybody in the world, and you… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
As in any machine, all the wires must be connected to the mains through one main wire. In the same way, you all must… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The most difficult part for me is feeling connected to the people that I love but always being on the go to different places. — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
I don't have faith in the Internet, I have faith in people connected through the Internet. — Jim Gilliam Copy Share Image
In a personal way, to do with family and the father-son relationship, in a kind of artistic way with regard to him being an… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Be conscious of one another and everything that we are connected to in this world of ours (not just your relatives and friends). — Noelle Scaggs Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
