"Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain……" — William James
"Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so."
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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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Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.
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Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun…
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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions…
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Capablanca plays very superficially sometimes, in a way that can only be ascribed to lack of concentration. This is an…
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Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.
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The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent…
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Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and…
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