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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth

William James

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
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
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking

What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth

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