W.I. Thomas: “If people believe something to be true, it is true in its consequences.”
In other words, we act on our beliefs as if they were facts, right?
I think about this all the time because it helps me understand why other people hold as firmly to their beliefs as I hold to mine. It also reminds me how fallible my own “facts” might be.
I wish other people would appreciate this maxim as well — it’d save me a whole lot of useless arguments.
Now I’m an idealist, which means I’m more prone to this than other people. Like republicans — theoretically I understand how they could think the way they do but when it comes right down