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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

William James

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
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
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

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