The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
JOHN DEWEY
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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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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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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.
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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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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 most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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To me faith means not worrying.
JOHN DEWEY