"The community stagnates without the impulse of the……" — William James
"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."
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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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We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do,…
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In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among…
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Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity -…
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Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?
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Art is running away without ever leaving home.
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We had a showing of Battlestar in LA last week. I walked out the door and there were 50 people.…
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Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace,…
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property;…
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any…
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I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister…
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Such is the grasping tendency of the human heart, that it must have a something to lay hold of—and which,…
— Thomas Chalmers
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I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without…
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