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 DEWEYTo me, faith means not worrying.
More John Dewey Quotes
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The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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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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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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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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Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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