John Dewey Quotes - 9quotes.com

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
Written by John Dewey
To me faith means not worrying.
Written by John Dewey
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
Written by John Dewey
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Written by John Dewey
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
Written by John Dewey
No man's credit is as good as his money.
Written by John Dewey
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
Written by John Dewey
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.
Written by John Dewey
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
Written by John Dewey
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
Written by John Dewey
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
Written by John Dewey
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
Written by John Dewey
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.
Written by John Dewey
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.
Written by John Dewey
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
Written by John Dewey
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
Written by John Dewey
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Written by John Dewey
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
Written by John Dewey
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Written by John Dewey
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.
Written by John Dewey
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
Written by John Dewey
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
Written by John Dewey
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
Written by John Dewey
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
Written by John Dewey

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