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 only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
More John Dewey Quotes
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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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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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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 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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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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.
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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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