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William James

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
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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Mean Reality Truth
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
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
The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Discovery Important Positive
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration

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