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Truth happens to an idea...

Truth happens to an idea

William James 820 quotes

True is the name for whatever ...

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

William James 820 quotes

Woe to him whose beliefs play ...

Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or else make false connections

William James 820 quotes

Truth lives, in fact, for the ...

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

William James 820 quotes

Our ideas must agree with real...

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

William James 820 quotes

Theory must mediate between al...

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences

William James 820 quotes

Our theories are wedged and co...

Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'

William James 820 quotes

Truth for us is simply a colle...

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes

William James 820 quotes

In the last analysis, then, we...

In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common

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To know an object is to lead t...

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

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The suspicion is in the air no...

The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

William James 820 quotes

To give the theory plenty of '...

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

William James 820 quotes

To consider hypotheses is sure...

To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein

William James 820 quotes

Owing to the fact that all exp...

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

William James 820 quotes

An experience, perceptual or c...

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

William James 820 quotes

It is very important that teac...

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

William James 820 quotes

The teacher's prime concern sh...

The teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists.

William James 820 quotes

In the acquisition of a new ha...

In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible.

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Seize the very first possible ...

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

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Don't preach too much to your ...

Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

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