There’s all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
JOHN DEWEYThe ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
More John Dewey Quotes
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Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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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As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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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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If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.
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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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To me faith means not worrying.
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Wonder is the mother of all science.
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The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.
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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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A problem well put is half solved.
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Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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