The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that thinking leads to action, and belief is an intermediate step influenced by our thoughts.
Charles Sanders Peirce emphasizes that the ultimate goal of thinking is to take action, while belief serves as a transitional phase in our mental processes. He argues that our beliefs, shaped by previous thoughts, play a significant role in influencing our future thinking and actions.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the power of thoughts and beliefs in achieving goals.
Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the beach while the whole ocean lies before us unexplored remains substantially as true as ever, and will do so though we shovel up the pebbles by steam shovels and carry them off in carloads.
My language is the sum total of myself.
All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.
The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. If force interests them, it is not in its exertion, but in that it has a reason and a law. For men of the first class, nature is a picture; for men of the second class, it is an opportunity; for men of the third class, it is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to them the only thing that makes life worth living. These are the men whom we see possessed by a passion to learn.
A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.
In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.
If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
Why did God create mankind? Because God likes stories.
This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.
I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.
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