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Wonder is the mother of all science.

John Dewey

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 DEWEY

Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
JOHN DEWEY

Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
JOHN DEWEY

Art Communication Existence
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Beginning Limitation 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.
JOHN DEWEY

Believe Mental Path Work
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
JOHN DEWEY

Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
JOHN DEWEY

Gratitude Literature Possible World
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
JOHN DEWEY

Institution Mindset People
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
JOHN DEWEY

Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
A problem well put is half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational One Liner Problem
Wonder is the mother of all science.
JOHN DEWEY

Mom Science
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
JOHN DEWEY

Attitude Desire Important Learning
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 DEWEY

Drink Force Man Philosophy
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
JOHN DEWEY

Inspirational Problem
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Business Failure Life Tragedy True

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