« All Life Quotes · John Dewey's Page
Life Quotes by John Dewey
- Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to…
- The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free way within the…
- I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that form of community life in…
- Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man…
- Society exists through a process of transmission quite as much as biological life. This transmission occurs by means of communication of habits of doing, thinking,…
- Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.
- To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form…
- Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life.
- Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.
- Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted…
- Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and…
- Since education is not a means to living, but is identical with the operation of living a life which is fruitful and inherently significant, the…
- ...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.
- Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the…
- The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a…
- Education is life itself.
- It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in…
- Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of…
- The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is their contribution to…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
- Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
- 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…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle