Being true Quote by William James Download Open image “An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being true Conform Order Reality Truth
“Perception, influenced by experience and knowledge creates an acceptable level of reality.” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Our 'realities' are make-believe - whatever we make ourselves believe, we experience. — Jen Sincero Copy Share Image
“No formulation of the reality of experience is completely true. Once we acknowledge this, we relieve words of the impossible burden of trying to… — Rupert Spira Copy Share Image
What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The reality you experience is a reflection of what you believe is most possible. — Darryl Anka Copy Share Image
I can’t describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them. — Anders Petersen Copy Share Image
The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“The way we tend to perceive things to be does not accord with the way they are. Again, this does not nihilistically deny the… — Thupten Jinpa Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad,… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Intuitionists think that there are cases in which, say, some identity statement between real numbers is neither true nor false, even though we know… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I learned a tremendous amount about what was important to me as a head coach in that I was not in charge. I didn't… — Pete Carroll Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
