"If there is aught of good in the……" — William James
"If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more."
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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 Aught Quotes
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Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.
— Gelett Burgess
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It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
— Homer
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Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the…
— Paul Morphy
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The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave…
— John Burnside
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Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams…
— William Wordsworth
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Is it not high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men…
— Samuel Adams
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They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands…
— Fitz-Greene Halleck
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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
— John Milton
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By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will…
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines,…
— John Milton
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The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.
— Abraham Lincoln
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