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Truth is something that happens to an idea.

William James

So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Dogmatize Hypothesis Truth
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational

Truth is something that happens to an idea.

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