"Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs……" — John Dewey
"Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving."
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John Dewey
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205 Quotes by John Dewey
John Dewey has 205 quotes on this site.
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
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There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with…
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Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised…
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Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power…
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The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete…
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I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social…
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I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that…
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I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The…
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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
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The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully…
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Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
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Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.
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More Conflict Quotes
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was…
— Karen Armstrong
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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional…
— Alan Ball
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Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
— James M. Barrie
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible…
— Andrew Bernstein
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
— Andrew Bernstein
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Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
— Tony Blair
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Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international…
— Tony Blair
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I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict…
— Emily Blunt
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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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