"Serious development of the personality begins at the……" — William James

"Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door."

— William James

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484 Quotes by William James

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I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of…
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting…
No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to…
Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully…
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of…
Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already…
An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort…

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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and… — Karen Armstrong
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. — Arthur Baer
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. — Mikhail Bakunin
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. — James A. Baldwin
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story… — Clive Barker
I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with… — Scott Adams
Where annual elections end where slavery begins. — John Quincy Adams
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.… — Samuel Beckett
The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary… — Pope Benedict XVI
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of… — Ruth Benedict
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. — Ambrose Bierce

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