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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

John Dewey

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
Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
JOHN DEWEY

Science Thinking
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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Ideas Reflection Result Simplicity
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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Act Action Feeling Thinking
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
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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Discover Happiness Opportunity Secure Success
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.
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Change Direction Mindset Place Unity
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy Reflection
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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Deep Desire Emotion Feeling Human Important Nature
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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Eyes Learning Nature Result Thinking
Education is not preparation for life, Education is life itself.
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Education Life Preparation
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Art Communication Existence
Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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Fear Inspirational Yourself
There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
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Deep Different Talk Voice World
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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Believe Mental Path Work
To me faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
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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Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
The local is the only universal, upon that all art is built.
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Art Philosophy
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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Education Future Life Live Preparation
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Action Change Choice Improvement Transformation
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Feeling God Myself Pretty
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Growth Lie Mindset

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