#Association Quotes

“I am joined with no foot land-rakers, no long-staff, sixpenny strikers, none of these mad, mustachio purple-hued maltworms, but with nobility and tranquillity.”

“The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of trigonometry, the facts of history, the properties of material things, are all known to us as definite systems or groups of objects which cohere in an order fixed by innumerable iterations, and of which any one part reminds us of the others.”

“An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number.”

“Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.”

“An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.”

“It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association”

“Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.”

“A man is known by the company he owns.”

“The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj.”

“We become who we hang out with.”

“Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy and harmony.”

“Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.”

“A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.”

“Birds of a feather really do flock together.”

“Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.”

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”

“Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow.”

“Associations are both subtle and powerful.”

“Every man is like the company he wont to keep.”

“He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.”