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Letter "J" » John Dewey Quotes
«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.»
«No man's credit is as good as his money.»
«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.»
«One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.»
«The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in behalf of purposes that are intrinsically worth while. The commonest mistake made about freedom is, I think, to identify it with freedom of movement, or, with the external or physical side of activity.»
«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.»
«Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.»
«The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools»
«There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due»
«When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result»

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