Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
JOHN DEWEYTo 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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We only think when confronted with a problem.
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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 most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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A problem well put is half solved.
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Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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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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I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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To me, faith means not worrying.
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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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Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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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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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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