"It is only in the lonely emergencies of……" — William James
"It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods."
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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 Creed Quotes
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the…
— Irving Babbitt
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As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As…
— Saint Basil
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Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism…
— Annie Besant
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No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose…
— Cory Booker
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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we…
— George Aiken
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The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
— Joseph Brodsky
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I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
— Charlotte Bronte
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
— Samuel Butler
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Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by…
— Tony Campolo
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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