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One 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…
- Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
- 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…
- 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…
- Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. . . . This faith may be enacted…
- We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is…
- It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy,…
- Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences…
- 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…
- 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…
- No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is to the one…
- One might as well say he has sold when no one has bought as to say he has taught when no one has learned.
- 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…
- To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
- Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
- One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
- Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not…
- Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems…
- The ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle