| Show S TO THINK IL kj BOUT ABOUT sy dy F A WALKER WALK ER 1 biased MINDS pa T 0 AN incredible degree our beliefs are greatly influenced by our feelings and wishes by bringing to together gelber ideas bind and dwelling on them under the sway of strong feelings the mind tends naturally to believe in the 4 corresponding realities this Is seen in the strength of belief associated with the wild dreams of y youth auth to keep these airy visions constantly cony before the mind without testing them in practice sooner or later Is sure to cause a bias or prejudice which to in turn brings about dangerous likings or dis likings to the detriment of the intellectual 0 tel forces to exercise the senses and let them have undisturbed freedom Is the best way to accumulate the richest store of clear impressions without which no man an or women in his or her calling or profession can hope to attain aej degree of distinction to become biased and set in ideas Is to become warped nod and imprisoned in a vicious circle from which as the years advance there cheri Is but little likelihood of escaping the simple process of thinking clearly accepting facts as they present themselves and weighing the accumulated u evidence thus gathered on scales whose weights are true Is the only method by which the young or the old can expect to achieve and attain if you will study the bright intellects of the past the minds which have left their shining monuments in the world yau will find that they reached their exalted places by clear reasoning and a cheerful willingness to listen to words of counsel from others there was in them no desire to declare their superiority for they were ever anxious to avoid the ruts and drive steadily sten dlly up tip the hills with free reins and open minds untrammeled by prejudice and bias those terrible destroyers st of success lying in wait at the cross roads for the foolish the obdurate and the self conceited ac by mcclure mcclur Nw napper syndicate |
