Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
JOHN DEWEYThe deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
More John Dewey Quotes
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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
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Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling.
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The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
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Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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