QUOTE_AUTHENTICITY — fake/floating quote policy (Wattles)
Wattles sits at the head of the modern self-help / New-Thought lineage (his book
fed directly into Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich and, a century later, into
The Secret). That reception generates a dense field of paraphrases sold as
verbatim Wattles — polished one-liners, "law of attraction" reformulations, and
lines actually written by later authors. This page is the предохранитель.
Statuses
verified_primary— verbatim (after normalization) in an ingested SGR unit;
carriesunit_id(e.g.sgr.6.1).verified_secondary_only— attested in Wattles' other books (Being Well,
Being Great) or the Nautilus articles, but not in the ingested SGR corpus.new_thought_paraphrase— a New-Thought / law-of-attraction reformulation that
captures the gist but is not Wattles' wording; circulates as a "Wattles
quote". Flag, never quote as verbatim.popular_but_unverified— circulates widely, no SGR edition trace.misattributed— verifiably not Wattles (later author, or generic New-Thought).
Verification rule
A quote candidate is matched (case/punctuation/whitespace-normalized substring)
against the ingested SGR corpus (sources/sgr_en_units.json). English is the
original, so the English text is the gate; RU reading-layer lines («перевод наш»)
are not gated. RAG-time rule: a popular-quote-shaped query with no SGR match
answers NO_RELEVANT_KB_EVIDENCE, never confirms.
Starter list (extend as encountered)
| Quote (common form) | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|
| "There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made…" | verified_primary |
SGR creed, repeated verbatim at sgr.4.11, sgr.4.30, sgr.17.1 etc. |
| "You are to create, not to compete for what is already created." | verified_primary |
sgr.5.26 — the core ethical line, often mis-shortened |
| "Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value." | verified_primary |
close to sgr.6.1/sgr.6.7; check exact wording, popular form drifts |
| "By thought the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it." | verified_primary |
sgr.11.18 — genuine |
| "Whatever you want, you can have — the universe is conspiring to give it to you." | new_thought_paraphrase |
law-of-attraction gloss; SGR says "Substance is friendly to you" (sgr.9.9), not this |
| "Thoughts become things." | new_thought_paraphrase / likely misattributed |
Hill/Secret-era slogan, not SGR wording; SGR: "a thought… produces the thing that is imaged by the thought" |
| "Gratitude is the attitude." | popular_but_unverified |
motivational rhyme, no SGR trace; SGR has "the Law of Gratitude", not this |
| "Ask, believe, receive." | misattributed |
The Secret formula, not Wattles; SGR's own phrasing is "believe that ye receive them" (quoting the Gospel, sgr.8.13) |
KB build verification (2026-07-08, SGR hand-built KB)
- All evidence blockquotes in
concepts/,principles/,chains/carry a
> EN: "…"line verified as a verbatim (whitespace/quote-normalized) substring
of their citedsgr.*unit;sources/check_quotes.pyis the gate. - RU translation lines are marked «перевод наш» and are the reading layer only.
- New-Thought paraphrases above are catalogued OUTSIDE the blockquote system, so a
law-of-attraction reformulation can never be served as a real Wattles quote. - Wattles quotes the Bible often (Jesus, Paul); those lines are marked as Wattles
quoting scripture, not as Wattles' own doctrine, at their usage sites.