William Thomas Quotes
It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct-- if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
This had been a principle of Sociology since. It is conceptually similar to political quotations such as {585931}.
William Thomas, 1863–1947, Sociologist, Honorary President of the American Sociological Society, Thomas’s Theorem
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He is one of the later people to express this idea but at the time, most political pundits and politicians were unaware of most of the others. See related quotes.
See Eddie Bernice Johnson {605259} & Barbara Tuchman {626144} for similar views and John Stuart Mill {607508} for an earlier expression. See {638618} for a Sociology principle that is similar. The earliest expression of the idea can be found in the Bhagavad Gita {594723}
This important political concept has a long history. See also {605259}, {626144}, {607508}, and {585931}
