"The difference between an interesting and a..." - Quote by William James

“The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.”

“If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.”

“If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.”

“If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in it with the known. If it be inhuman, make it figure as part of a story. If it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long.”

“We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.”

“The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom.”

“Information is not knowledge.”

“Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.”

“In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble.”