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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

William James

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
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
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
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Democracy Genius People
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet

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