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William James Quotes about Truth

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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Life, Trust, Truth

William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

Truth, Mean, Inspire

William James (2002). “The Meaning of Truth”, p.300, Courier Corporation

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Truth, Opposites, Would Be

William James (2007). “The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.217, Cosimo, Inc.

An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true

Truth, Reality, Order

William James (2013). “The Meaning of Truth”, p.52, Courier Corporation

Truth in our ideas means their power to work.

Truth, Mean, Ideas

William James (2015). “Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth”, p.48, William James

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

Truth, Names, Ideas

William James (2013). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.96, Lulu Press, Inc

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

Truth, Lying, Philosophical

William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.31, Courier Corporation

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes

Truth, Names, Process

William James (2013). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.101, Lulu Press, Inc

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

Truth, Names, Way

William James (2013). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

Truth, Views, Owing

William James (2013). “The Meaning of Truth”, p.48, Courier Corporation

'What would be better for us to believe!' This sounds very like a definition of truth

Truth, Believe, Sound

William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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.

Truth, Mean, Reality

William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.99, Routledge

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

Truth, Honesty, Integrity

Truth happens to an idea

Truth, Ideas, Happens

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking Lecture 6 (1907)

Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.

Truth, Ideas, Events

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking Lecture 6 (1907)

Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?

Truth, Ideas, Differences

William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.77, Courier Corporation

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

Truth, Credit, Facts

William James (2015). “Pragmatism and the Conception of Thruth”, p.166, William James

Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.

Truth, Law, Names

William James (2012). “Pragmatism”, p.93, Courier Corporation

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

Truth, Truth Is, Categories

William James (2013). “Pragmatism: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.40, Lulu Press, Inc

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, Belief

William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.140, University of Illinois Press

... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.

Wall, Truth, Reality

William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.77, 谷月社

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, Reality, Order

William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.86, Routledge

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Truth, Guides, Sensible

William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.31, 谷月社

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

Truth, Reality, Ideas

William James (2007). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”, p.128, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.

Truth, Real, Thinking

William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.78, 谷月社

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