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To me faith means not worrying.
Category: Faith Author: John Dewey
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
Category: Goals Author: John Dewey
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Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.
Category: History Author: John Dewey
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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.
Category: Ignorance Author: John Dewey
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We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.
Category: Miscellaneous Author: John Dewey
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Category: Science Author: John Dewey
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Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.
Category: Science Author: John Dewey
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