American - Philosopher | October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
John Dewey
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
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Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
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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.
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Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
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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.
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We only think when we are confronted with problems.
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No man's credit is as good as his money.
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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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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By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
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To me faith means not worrying.
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