We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
The subjectivist in morals, when his moral feelings are at war with the facts about him, is always free to seek harmony by toningdown the sensitiveness of the feelings.
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.
Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.
It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in 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.
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system.
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract.
Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences.
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes.
In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common.
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides.
To give the theory plenty of ‘rope’ and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction.
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein.
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot.
Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it.