26 Quotes by John Dewey
- Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
- Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
- By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
- Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
- Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
- Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
- Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
- The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
- To me faith means not worrying.
- We only think when we are confronted with problems.
- The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
- The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
- Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
- Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
- Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
- Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
- Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
- The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
- One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
- Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
- No man's credit is as good as his money.
- Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
- Don't confuse education with schooling; one teaches you how to make a living, the other how to make a life.
- Life is an adventure to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
- Success isn't just about what you accomplish in your life, it's about what you inspire others to do as a result.
- True intelligence is not in knowing everything, but in learning something new every day
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