"Science as such assuredly has no authority, for……" — William James
"Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not."
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William James
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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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I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.
— Kirk Cameron
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The attitude of saints toward their possessions most assuredly signifies whether they continue to preserve their self life or whether…
— Watchman Nee
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To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.
— George Washington
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Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a…
— Bobby Jones
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If intellectual curiosity, professional pride, and ambition are the dominant incentives to research, then assuredly no one has a fairer…
— G. H. Hardy
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Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be…
— Sigmund Freud
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I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish…
— Carl Linnaeus
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Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said,…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business…
— John Owen
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When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it.…
— John Owen
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The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The…
— John Owen
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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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