Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. — John Dewey
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. — John Dewey
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. — John Dewey
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. — John Dewey
The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite — John Dewey
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been — John Dewey
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent. — John Dewey
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. — John Dewey
The very problem of mind and body suggests division; I do not know of anything so disastrously — John Dewey
Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself. — John Dewey
The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say. — John Dewey