If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.

The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.

a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind