Logo
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

Other quotes by William James

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! – William James

Category:
Faith
Author
William James
Read Quote

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. – William James

Category:
Hell
Author
William James
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Truth
category

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truths sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. – Louisa May Alcott

Category:
Truth

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter. – Marie de France

Category:
Truth

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. – William Cowper

Category:
Truth

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same. – Blaise Pascal

Category:
Truth

Random Quotes

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I dont care if its a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way. – Harvey Weinstein

Category:
Family

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. – Alexander The Great

Category:
Self Respect

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else. – Rumi

Category:
Rumi

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future. – Zelda Fitzgerald

Category:
Future