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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true
'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.
Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.
Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse
There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.
Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.
To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.