"'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set……" — William James
"'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it."
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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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More Bounds Quotes
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one of 239 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
— Arthur Ashe
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
— Saint Augustine
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
— Teresa of Avila
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We are a nation of laws, and we will always act within the bounds of the law.
— John O. Brennan
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
— Samuel Butler
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Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days,…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying…
— Florence Nightingale
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Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
— Robert Browning
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Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.
— William Shakespeare
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I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff…
— Cary Middlecoff
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A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.
— Confucius
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Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of…
— Luigi Pirandello
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