Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.
William JamesIn order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
William JamesWe must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.
William JamesNo reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
William JamesWhen two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and the rapidity of its transitions. Before one of them is half through a sentence the other knows his meaning and replies. ... His mental lungs breathe more deeply, in an atmosphere more broad and vast.
William James