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Holding any opinion as never open to revision is a tremendously mistaken attitude
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- William James American philosopher and psychologist (1842 to 1910)
I live, to be sure, by the practical faith that we must go on experiencing and thinking over our experience, for only thus can our opinions grow more true; but to hold any one of them—I absolutely do not care which—as if it never could be reinterpretable or corrigible, I believe to be a tremendously mistaken attitude, and I think that the whole history of philosophy will bear me out.
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↗The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1879-1896)gutenberg.org
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