"The true is the name of whatever proves……" — William James
"The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons"
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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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It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the…
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There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every…
— Sigmund Freud
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By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they…
— David Ricardo
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Magic consists of creating, by misdirection of the senses, the mental impression of supernatural agency at work. That, and only…
— Unknown Author
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Postulate 3. Assignable causes of variation may be found and eliminated.
— Walter A. Shewhart
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Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite…
— Voltaire
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Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in…
— George Whitefield
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