Quote by William James
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. – William James

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Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. – William James

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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. – William James

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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one. – William James

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Nature has always had more force than education. – Voltaire

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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children dont come into the world. – Karl Kraus

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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art. – Barry Commoner

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I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. – Felix Bloch

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