Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

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

If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.

Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.

The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind