"Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine……" — William James
"Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?"
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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 Certitude Quotes
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The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only…
— Paulo Freire
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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one…
— Andre Gide
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In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words…
— Don Henley
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Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary,…
— Thomas Merton
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...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe,…
— Julian Huxley
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On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and…
— Wilhelm Dilthey
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My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion,…
— Chris Hedges
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The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with…
— Peter L. Berger
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I believe that ideas such as absolute certitude, absolute exactness, final truth, etc. are figments of the imagination which should…
— Max Born
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Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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