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Knowledge Quotes by John Dewey
- Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised for effectively directed reflection. [Without…
- Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.
- The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has been organized into…
- Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.
- That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief…
- Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself
- The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine…
- There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished…
- In a world that has so largely engaged in a mad and often brutally harsh race for material gain by means of ruthless competition, it…
- 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…
- 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…
- The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by…
More Knowledge Quotes
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius