Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.