We only think when confronted with a problem.
JOHN DEWEYLike the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
More John Dewey Quotes
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In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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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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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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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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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.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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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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Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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