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.
JOHN DEWEYOf all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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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 educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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 deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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