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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

William James

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Happen Ideas Truth
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Emergencies Encouragement Sith
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
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
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way

There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

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