"The mind is made up by what it…" — William James
"The mind is made up by what it feeds upon."
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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 Feeds Quotes
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one of 328 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that…
— Jeff Buckley
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Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
— Dick Cavett
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
— Winston Churchill
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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence…
— Unknown Author
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Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes.…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Memory feeds imagination.
— Amy Tan
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Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives…
— Francis Quarles
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I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.
— Joseph Fiennes
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The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor from whom…
— Albert Camus
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True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters…
— Menno Simons
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