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

John Dewey

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEY

Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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Achievement Success
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Feeling God Myself Pretty
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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Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Institution Mindset People
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.
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Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Art Philosophy
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
JOHN DEWEY

Live Philosophy

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