True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

No decision is, in itself, a decision.