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John Dewey [1859-1952] American

John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform.

Education, Happiness, Work, Environmental, Experience, Failure, Faith, Future, Great, Imagination, Life, Money, Motivational, Science, Time

Quote	Tags	Rank
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.	Education, Life	101
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.	Motivational	102
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.	Great, Imagination, Science	103
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.	Happiness, Work	104
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.		105
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.	Education, Future	106
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.		107
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.		108
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.	Work	109
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.	Education, Experience	110
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.		111
To me faith means not worrying.	Faith	112
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.		113
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.	Failure	114
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.		115
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.		116
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.		117
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.	Time	118
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.		119
No man's credit is as good as his money.	Money	120
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.	Happiness	121
We only think when we are confronted with problems.		122
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.		123
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.	Environmental	124
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.		125

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