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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

William James

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
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
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
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
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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Briefly Thinking True Way
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

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