Best belief & truth Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.”

Truth Desire Belief Freedom Responsibility Knowledge Greater Materials Comfort Intelligent Population Dread Rulers Interfere

Book:Complete Essays: 1926-1929

Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929

“Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?'”

Needs Doe Truth Asks Belief Theory Argument Tests Statements Agreement True Or False

Author:Barry Long

“Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.”

Thinking Reason Truth Belief Given Term Education Mankind Possibility Opposites Extremes Likes

Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.”

Way Reason Truth Names Belief Prove Be Good Definite Prove It

Book:Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)

Source: Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)

“Truth should be the first lesson of the child and the last aspiration of manhood; for it has been well said that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.”

Should Firsts Humans Wells Children Has Beens Said Truth Lasts Belief Enjoy Human Nature Lessons Aspiration Sovereign Manhood Inquiry Love Making Well Said

Book:Literary recreations and miscellanies

Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies

“What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.”

Truth Belief Generations Truth Is Essence

Author:Plato

“A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.”

Long Truth Belief Understood Disappointment Propositions

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“Truth is that concordance of an abstract statement with the ideal limit towards which endless investigation would tend to bring scientific belief, which concordance the abstract statement may possess by virtue of the confession of its inaccuracy and one-sidedness, and this confession is an essential ingredient of truth.”

May Truth Belief Virtue Truth Is Limits Essentials Ideals Endless Statements Abstract Ingredients Confession Investigation

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying.”

Moments Use Truth Science Belief Subjects Judging Method Doctrine Evolve Midst Here And There Corrections Scientific Method

Book:Word and Object

Source: Word and Object

“To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.”

May Ideas Facts Truth Belief Truth Is Proof Contrary Presumption

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

“To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing--and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good--but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.”

Different Sometimes Truth Belief Process Successful One Thing Truth Is Regard Assuming Different Things Criteria

Author:William Pepperell Montague

“It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.”

Mean Truth Found Belief Growing Violent

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock”

Truth Desire Individual Belief Opinion Novel Proportion

Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

“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”

Play Reality Truth Order Belief Connections Woe

Book:William James: Essays and Lectures

Source: William James: Essays and Lectures

“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”

May Truth Belief Quality Air Formulas Suspicion Superiority Subjective Elegance Objectivity Literal Usefulness Residual

Book:Pragmatism and Other Writings

Source: Pragmatism and Other Writings

“If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.”

Ifs Stills Truth Belief Thousand March Ruined

Book:Christ in modern life: sermons

Source: Christ in modern life: sermons

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