"...an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient ideational processes; there are no permanent ideas that return again and disappear again."

-- Wilhelm Wundt

#Ideas Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Return Quotes

“It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.”
“No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.”
“Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.”
“There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.”
“I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater”
“We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.”

Source : "Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.
“I was a very quiet child, quite introverted, really. Independent, yes; I didn't need a lot of supervision. Less so than I did when I got older, maybe. But I was a bookish child, not surprisingly. I could sit quite happily in a corner for hours and entertain myself with books.”
“There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and the love of action. If the former is refined by art and learning, improved by the charms of social intercourse, and corrected by a just regard to economy, to health, and to reputation, it is productive of the greatest part of the happiness of private life.”

You may also like:

B. F. Skinner
Psychologist
Francis Galton
Polymath
G. Stanley Hall
Psychologist
Gustav Fechner
Philosopher
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Psychologist
Ivan Pavlov
Physiologist
John B. Watson
Psychologist
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist
William James
Philosopher