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Intellectual Quotes by John Dewey

10 Intellectual quotes by John Dewey

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Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous…

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When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional…

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When words do not enter as factors into a shared situation, either overtly or imaginatively, they operate as pure physical stimuli, not…

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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he…

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Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms…

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No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is…

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An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we…

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“When theories of values do not afford intellectual assistance in framing ideas and beliefs about values that are adequate to direct action,…

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The intellectual content of religions has always finally adapted itself to scientific and social conditions after they have become clear… For this…

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Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals…

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right…

A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view…

Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and…

A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected with fighting…

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

Doctrine that eliminates or even obscures the function of choice of values and enlistment of desires and emotions in behalf of those chosen weakens…

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts…

Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come…

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply…

Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse…

“When the organization called soul is free, moving and operative, initial as well as terminal, it is spirit. Qualities are both static, substantial, and…

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more…

Creative thinking will improve as we relate the new fact to the old and all facts to each other.