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John Dewey
American
Philosopher
About the author
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Failure
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Goal
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Life
#Education
#Preparation
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Living
#Education
#Future
#Preparation
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Science
#Imagination
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#World
#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.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Man
#Old
#History
#Beliefs
#Surrender
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Opportunity
#Key
#Happiness
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Action
#Self
#Choice
To me faith means not worrying.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Faith
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Problems
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Life
#Experience
#Happiness
#Meaning
#Participation
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Belief
#Experience
#Education
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Man
#Unworthy
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.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Words
#Man
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Time
#Heart
#Artists
#Desire
#Memory
#Reality
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.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Will
#Luck
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#World
#Man
#Mystery
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Home
#Man
#Mother
#Nature
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.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Work
#Trouble
#Old
#Beliefs
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Heart
#Conscience
#Deeds
#Intentions
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Mind
No man's credit is as good as his money.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Man
#Money
#Credit
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
John Dewey,
American
Philosopher
#Goals
#Man