"It seems the natural thing for us to……" — William James
"It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk."
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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 Europeans Quotes
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And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to…
— Dave Barry
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We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian…
— Sherman Alexie
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Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This…
— John Henrik Clarke
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When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred…
— Brent Scowcroft
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It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the…
— John Henrik Clarke
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The Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing. We're exploring the very…
— Michio Kaku
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Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for…
— Thomas Sowell
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Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which…
— Hilaire Belloc
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Those Europeans, they know how to negotiate.
— Unknown Author
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I believe that the Europeans, first and foremost, the Germans, will also understand me. Let me remind you that in…
— Vladimir Putin
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[The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on…
— Russell Means
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