James/people

Famous quotes containing the words james and/or people:

    If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us as long to recall a space of time as it took the original time to elapse, and we should never get ahead with our thinking. All recollected times undergo, accordingly, what M. Ribot calls foreshortening; and this foreshortening is due to the omission of an enormous number of facts which filled them.
    —William James (1842–1910)

    The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)