"An idea, to be suggestive, must come to……" — William James
"An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation."
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484 Quotes by William James
William James has 484 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting…
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to…
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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…
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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…
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Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already…
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An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort…
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The…
— Saint Augustine
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
— Paul Auster
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
— Charles Babbage
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
— Lord Acton
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the…
— Lord Acton
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at…
— Julianna Baggott
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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