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John Dewey Quotes
John Dewey
American
Philosopher
Born:
Oct 20
,
1859
Died:
Jun 1
,
1952
Experience
Good
His
Man
Old
Think
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey
Happiness
Key
Opportunity
Secure
Out
Find
Fitted
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey
Motivational
Point
Another
Arriving
Goal
Starting
Starting Point
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey
Action
Something
Through
Self
Ready-Made
Continuous
Formation
Choice
No man's credit is as good as his money.
John Dewey
Good
Man
Money
His
Credit
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
John Dewey
Good
Man
Better
Matter
Good Man
Become
Has-Been
Morally
He
How
Unworthy
Been
Moving
Who
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.
John Dewey
Beautiful
Man
Words
Flower
Seems
Color
Perfume
Does
Just
Fruitless
Which
Them
Speaks
Who
To me faith means not worrying.
John Dewey
Faith
Me
Worrying
Means
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
John Dewey
Education
Experience
About
Through
Equally
Genuine
Does
Genuinely
Experiences
Mean
Belief
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
Failure
Failures
Learns
His
Person
Quite
Much
Successes
Really
Who
Thinks
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.
John Dewey
Work
Path
Old
Made
Trouble
Mental
Rut
Troublesome
Least
Undertake
Requires
Beliefs
Resistance
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
John Dewey
Mind
Mark
Educated
Skepticism
Even
Pose
Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
John Dewey
World
Think
Some
Begun
Anyone
Places
Who
Jeopardy
Portion
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
Happiness
Life
Experience
Endeavor
Own
Changing
Our
Participation
Powers
Situations
Capable
Meaning
Full
Unique
Each
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
John Dewey
Man
Goals
Live
Some
Reach
Without
Efforts
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.
John Dewey
Good
Will
Stupid
Luck
Back
Way
Bad
Always
Intelligent
Us
Showing
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
John Dewey
Man
World
Uncertainties
Mystery
Man Lives
Lives
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
John Dewey
Good
Heart
Good Intentions
Bad
Some
Intentions
Deeds
Many
Lives
Conscience
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