"I wished by treating Psychology like a natural……" — William James
"I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one."
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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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Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
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Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one…
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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first…
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The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body)…
— George Washington
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The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others,…
— Nhat Hanh
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Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner…
— George Wald
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The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of…
— Julian Huxley
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I've become one of those annoying people who brings their own food on to planes.
— Jessie Ware
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When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted…
— Leo Buscaglia
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In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one.
— Yosa Buson
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In the spring rain, the pond and the river become one. Into every life some rain must fall. Usually when…
— Langston Hughes
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The wedding is where two people become one. The marriage is where they decide which one.
— Robert Breault
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