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Action Quotes by John Dewey
- Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
- What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and identifying itself? By…
- The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create…
- Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.
- Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.
- Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally…
- 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…
- 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…
- The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
- Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
- We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos
More Action Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius