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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

William James

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
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
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
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
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth

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