Hear you don’t believe I know enough to hold office. I wish you to understand that I am thinking about something or other most of the time.
JOHN DEWEYThe 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.
More John Dewey Quotes
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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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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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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