"Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher..." - Quote by William James

“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”

“Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.”

“In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.”

“We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, willoften peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.”

“Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.”

“We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.”

“The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.”

“Teaching is the highest form of understanding.”

“Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.”