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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.

John Dewey

The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.
JOHN DEWEY

Attachment End Science
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.
JOHN DEWEY

Growth Life Mindset Philosophy Transformation Understand
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.
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Business Failure Life Tragedy True
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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Beginning Place Thinking World
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
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Peace War Way
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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Gratitude Literature Possible World
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
In a sense the mind of savage peoples is an effect, rather than a cause, of their backward institutions.
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Institution Mindset People
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
In object lessons in elementary education and in laboratory instruction in higher education, the subject is often so treated that the student fails to see the forest on account of the trees.
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Education Failure Tree
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
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Failure Learning Person Success Thinking
We only think when confronted with a problem.
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Problem 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 me, faith means not worrying.
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Faith Myself Worry
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 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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