The Science of Human Nature / A Psychology for Beginners

Education should also do what it can to make people able to enjoy the world and life to the fullest and highest extent.

To understand all the aspects of the world, we must study all the sciences.

We study about things instead of studying things

It is a lawful world; it is not a world of chance. Everything is related to everything else.

If we wish to remember knowledge, the knowledge must be seen in the clearest light, really be knowledge, at the outset

The man is sensitive and has the power of action, the power of moving himself.

You are beginning the study of human nature. You can not study human nature from a book, you must study yourself and your neighbors. This book may help you to know what to look for and to understand what you find, but it can do little more than this. It is true, this text gives you many facts learned by psychologists, but you must verify the statements, or at least see their significance to you, or they will be of no worth to you. However, the facts considered here, properly understood and assimilated, ought to prove of great value to you. But perhaps of greater value will be the psychological frame of mind or attitude which you should acquire. The psychological

Everything is related to everything else.

What repeatedly comes into our experience, easily attracts our attention to the exclusion of other things.

The first question that arises in connection with attention is, What are the causes of attention?