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Quote by William James
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our th

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. – William James

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The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is noninterference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours. – William James

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Miscellaneous
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William James
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. – William James

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Faith
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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.” – William James

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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast Table

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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. – Hunter S. Thompson

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Truth

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy. – Tertullian

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The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth. – Jean de la Bruyere

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To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous. – Chinese Proverb

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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. – Leonardo da Vinci

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Institutions – government, churches, industries, and the like – have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. – Charles Horton Cooley

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