All John Dewey Quotes
- To me faith means not worrying. Faith
- The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. Action
- Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Educational
- We only think when we are confronted with problems. Confronted
- Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind. Educated
- 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. Already Made
- Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy. Anyone
- The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. All
- Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. Advance
- 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… Beautiful
- One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. Bad
- 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… Bad
- Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Effort
- 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… Bases
- Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties. Lives
- No man's credit is as good as his money. Business
- Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. Artist
- By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. Abstraction
- 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… All
- Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and… Active