True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
WILLIAM JAMESOwing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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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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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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