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Men 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…
- 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…
- The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man…
- Man's home is nature; his purposes and aims are dependent for execution upon natural conditions. Separated from such conditions they become empty dreams and idle…
- Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
- By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are…
- Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for…
- 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…
- 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…
- The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
- 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…
- Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
- 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…
- Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
- No man's credit is as good as his money.
- The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.…
- For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other…
More Men Quotes
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle