"Be patient and sympathetic with the type..." - Quote by William James
Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important.
More by William James
“A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.”
“I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.”
“'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.”
More on Education
“The biggest reason people don't succeed is because they don't expose themselves to existing information.”
“There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.”
“The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.”
More on Intelligence
“I see you finally got a number to match your IQ.”
“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.”
“Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.”