William James Quote

Minds so earnest and helpless that it takes them a half-an-hour to get from one idea to its immediately adjacent next neighbor, and then they lie down on it…like a cow on a doormat, so that you can get neither in nor out with them.

description of audience at a Chautauqua lecture, letter to his wife, July 1896

Minds so earnest and helpless that it takes them a half-an-hour to get from one idea to its immediately adjacent next neighbor, and then they lie...

Minds so earnest and helpless that it takes them a half-an-hour to get from one idea to its immediately adjacent next neighbor, and then they lie...

Minds so earnest and helpless that it takes them a half-an-hour to get from one idea to its immediately adjacent next neighbor, and then they lie...

Minds so earnest and helpless that it takes them a half-an-hour to get from one idea to its immediately adjacent next neighbor, and then they lie...