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Mind Quotes by John Dewey
- Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it…
- The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.
- Communication of science as subject-matter has so far outrun in education the construction of a scientific habit of mind that to some extent the natural…
- Too rarely is the individual teacher so free from the dictation of authoritative supervisor, textbook on methods, prescribed course of study, etc., that he can…
- Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving.
- 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…
- 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…
- Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
- Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale
- Why can't I just tell you how I feel? That you're constantly on my mind...that I'm crazy about you. Maybe it's because… — Superman
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle