William James Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

  William James

  Memories, Fall, Mean

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.643, Courier Corporation

• Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

  William James

  Memories, Philosophy, Educational

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.161, Courier Corporation

• You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

  William James

  Memories, Eye, Passion

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.108, Nuvision Pubns

• The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

  William James

  Memories, Thinking, Experience

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.129, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  William James

  Memories, Philosophy, Educational

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.96, Nuvision Pubns

• Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.

  William James

  Memories, Ships, Should

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.680, Courier Corporation

• The total mental efficiency of a man is the resultant of the working together of all his faculties. He is too complex a being for any one of them to have the casting vote. If any one of them do have the casting vote, it is more likely to be the strength of his desire and passion, the strength of the interest he takes in what is proposed. Concentration, memory, reasoning power, inventiveness, excellence of the senses, all are subsidiary to this.

  William James

  Memories, Passion, Men

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.92, Nuvision Pubns

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