Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
JOHN DEWEYWonder is the mother of all science.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence – a consecutive ordering in such a way that each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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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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The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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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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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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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Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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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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We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.
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