| Genuine ignorance is... profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. |
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- John Dewey |
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| Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals. |
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- John Dewey |
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| We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice. |
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- John Dewey |
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| Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. |
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- John Dewey |
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| 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." |
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- John Dewey |
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| Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. |
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- John Dewey |
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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. |
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- John Dewey |
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| The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. |
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- John Dewey |
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| We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. |
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- John Dewey |
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| Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. |
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- John Dewey |
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| To me faith means not worrying. |
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- John Dewey |
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