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Truth is what works. - William James

Truth is what works. – 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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Reality
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William James
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. – William James

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Attitude
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out theyve got a second. – William James

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Sports
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Other Quotes from
Truth
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I know what I like in other actors: truth. Thats the best. It makes you say, OK, Ill go with you on this. – Daniel Craig

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Truth

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion. – Francis Bacon

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Truth

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. – Blaise Pascal

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Truth

It does not require many words to speak the truth. – Chief Joseph

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Truth

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Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-tomorrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Wise Words

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Writing is truly a creative art – putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot. – William Shatner

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