"The deepest urge in human nature is the……" — John Dewey

"The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important."

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205 Quotes by John Dewey

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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with…
Without initiation into the scientific spirit one is not in possession of the best tools humanity has so far devised…
Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power…
The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete…
I believe that the community's duty to education is, therefore, its paramount moral duty. By law and punishment, by social…
I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that…
I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The…
I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully…
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites.

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This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest… — Gerard Arpey
In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part… — John James Audubon
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. — Ansel Adams
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree… — Lord Byron
All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. — Lloyd Alexander
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. — Pablo Casals
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that… — Willa Cather
Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I… — Judy Chicago
Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In… — Alan Cohen
Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that… — Heinz Pagels

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