On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.

He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.

Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.

I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.

I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.