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 DEWEYWe only think when confronted with a problem.
More John Dewey Quotes
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A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
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The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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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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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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.
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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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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