There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
WILLIAM JAMESIn business for yourself, not by yourself.
More William James Quotes
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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