It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth, 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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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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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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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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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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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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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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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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