The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.

The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these associations and connections, and in the dullness in discovering such transitions which the other shows.

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.

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.