"Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels…" — William James
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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 Dog Quotes
This quote is filed under Dog Quotes,
one of 3,732 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you…
— Francis Bacon
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Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call…
— Antonio Banderas
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If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats…
— Antonio Banderas
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
— Edward Abbey
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We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children…
— Brigitte Bardot
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I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known.
— Bob Barker
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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise…
— Dave Barry
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There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being…
— Drew Barrymore
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Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
— Saint Basil
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Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
— Francis Beaumont
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