John Dewey

John Dewey

"Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry."
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"Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry."
John Dewey Reconstruction in Philosophy
"As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance."
John Dewey
"A problem well put is half solved."
John Dewey
"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."
John Dewey
"Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living."
John Dewey
"Education is not preparation for life education is life itself."
John Dewey
"No man's credit is as good as his money."
John Dewey
"To me faith means not worrying."
John Dewey
"The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative."
John Dewey
"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."
John Dewey
"Time and memory are true artists they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire."
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."
John Dewey
"Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home."
John Dewey
"To the being of fully alive the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a halo."
John Dewey
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
John Dewey
"To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness."
John Dewey
"To me faith means not worrying."
John Dewey
"Since changes are going on anyway the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Condi-tions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in they are to be utilized and directed."
John Dewey
"Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life."
John Dewey
"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."
John Dewey
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