William James Quotes
A thing is important if anyone think it important..
William James, 1842-1910, Psychologist & Philosopher, Principles of Psychology, 1890
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See Eddie Bernice Johnson {605259} & Barbara Tuchman {626144} for similar views and John Stuart Mill {607508} for an earlier expression. See {638618} for a Sociology principle that is similar. The earliest expression of the idea can be found in the Bhagavad Gita {594723}
See Otis Singletary {585931} for a different expression of the same idea and John Stuart Mill {607508} for the earlier expression. The earliest expression of the idea can be found in the Bhagavad Gita {594723}
As Poet Laureate to the King Dryden did not have great confidence in the wisdom of the public.
See Otis Singletary and Eddie Bernice Johnson for a similar view.
William James was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James is considered to be a leading thinker of the late nineteenth century, one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the "Father of American psychology".
