“The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.”

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

To me, faith means not worrying.

I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.

Wonder is the mother of all science.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

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.

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.

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

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.

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.

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.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.