"If we learn not humility, we learn nothing." — John Dewey
"If we learn not humility, we learn nothing."
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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 Humble Quotes
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
— Saint Augustine
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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
— Joan Baez
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The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
— James M. Barrie
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Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
— Joseph Addison
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The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
— Joseph Addison
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I…
— Wendell Berry
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I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions…
— Norman Borlaug
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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at…
— Phillips Brooks
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