All John Dewey Quotes
- A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power… Ability
- 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.… Admit
- In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as… Absolute
- The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its… Activity
- The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and… Activities
- Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of the universal and… All
- Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎ Education
- If we learn not humility, we learn nothing. Humble
- The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end. Actually Bring
- The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously affected by the habit of division as this… Affected
- As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure. Art
- When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and… Act
- The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For discovery… Active
- It is not truly realistic or scientific to take short views, to sacrifice the future to immediate pressure, to ignore facts and forces that are… Absence
- Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is… Action
- Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. Cleverness
- To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. Find
- The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better. Become Better
- Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. Arriving
- Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Education