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John Dewey

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John Dewey is proof that you do not need celebrity to say something worth remembering. Whether reflecting on Education or Work, John Dewey brought uncommon clarity to every subject. Browse 19 quotes by John Dewey that cover ground from Education, Work, Happiness, Experience, and Science. Start here and see if you agree: "To me faith means not worrying."

“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

All Quotes by John Dewey

“Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.”

— John Dewey

Education

“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

History

“To me faith means not worrying.”

— John Dewey

Faith

“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

Experience

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

— John Dewey

Failure

“Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.”

— John Dewey

Education

“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

“The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.”

— John Dewey

Education

“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

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”

— John Dewey

Imagination

“Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.”

— John Dewey

Home

“No man's credit is as good as his money.”

— John Dewey

Money