"To study the abnormal is the best way……" — William James
"To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal."
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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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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and…
— Annie Besant
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I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those…
— Tim Burton
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Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If you feel bad at 10 miles, you're in trouble. If you feel bad at 20 miles, you're normal. If…
— Robert de Castella
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Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together,…
— Max Wertheimer
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It's an abnormal world I live in. I don't belong anywhere. It's like I'm floating down the middle. I'm never…
— Arthur Ashe
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Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior".
— Hans Asperger
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Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping…
— Robert M. Sapolsky
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Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
— Henry Adams
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People are so intimidated by the gay movement that nobody will say why...they won't say why they don't want gay…
— Scott Lively
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Every single word you have spoken is sharp, sarcastic and twisted. When I thought you were abnormal you suddenly turned…
— Jae Hee
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Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may…
— Unknown Author
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