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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
John Dewey
Goals
Man
No man's credit is as good as his money.
John Dewey
Money
Credit
Man
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
John Dewey
Mind
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
John Dewey
Heart
Conscience
Deeds
Intentions
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.
John Dewey
Work
Beliefs
Old
Trouble
Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
John Dewey
Home
Nature
Mother
Man
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
John Dewey
Man
Mystery
World
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.
John Dewey
Luck
Will
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
John Dewey
Time
Heart
Artists
Desire
Memory
Reality
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
John Dewey
Man
Words
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
John Dewey
Man
Unworthy
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
John Dewey
Education
Experience
Belief
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.
John Dewey
Experience
Happiness
Life
Meaning
Participation
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
John Dewey
Problems
To me faith means not worrying.
John Dewey
Faith