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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

John Dewey

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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Greatness Imagination Issue Science
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
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
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Attitude Desire Important Learning
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem Thinking
Hunger not to have, but to be.
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
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
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
I believe that the school must represent life – life as real and vital to the child as that which he carries on in the home, in the neighborhood, or on the playground.
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Believe Children Home Life Myself Play Reality
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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Beginning Limitation Thinking
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
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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Drink Force Man Philosophy
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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Believe Enough Myself Thinking Time Yourself
Art is the most effective mode of communications that exists.
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Art Communication Existence
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
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Communication Wonderful
To me, faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
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Live Philosophy
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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Feeling God Myself Pretty
If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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Children Education Teaching
The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.
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Beyond Education End
The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.
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Education Philosophy
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
The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
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Attachment End Science
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
Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.
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Result Taste Thinking
A problem well put is half solved.
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Inspirational One Liner Problem
Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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Growth Lie Mindset
Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition.
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Education Intellectual Logic

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

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