In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
WILLIAM JAMESIt seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
More William James Quotes
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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