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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

William James

No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
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
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
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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Finals Lasts Men

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