Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

The fish will be the last to discover water.

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.

Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought to be like