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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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Pure experience is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories. – William James

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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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I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms. – Giacomo Casanova

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Exactitude is not truth. – Henri Matisse

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The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. – Henry A. Wallace

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Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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Take the first step in faith. You dont have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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