"The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion……" — John Dewey
"The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt."
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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 Confusion Quotes
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one of 1,081 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all…
— Nancy Astor
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the…
— Charles Babbage
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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
— Francis Bacon
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want…
— John Adams
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
— Jose Bergamin
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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
— James Agee
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I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
— Daniel Boone
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Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
— Marlon Brando
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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
— A. Whitney Brown
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