Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.