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.
JOHN DEWEYMost notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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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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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
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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 only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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