John Dewey Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.”

“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.”

“To me faith means not worrying.”

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.”

“Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.”