John Dewey ( 9 of 19 )
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake read more
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. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - The Quest for Certainty.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - The Quest for Certainty.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key read more
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks read more
For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to read more
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.
Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
