Wisdom Quote by John Dewey — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.”

“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.”

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”

“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 the imagination.”

“Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.”

“I trust you with their lives,' Prof said, still writing, 'and them with yours. Don't betray that trust, son. Keep your impulses in check. Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.”

“Your judgments about another person say more about your own character than the character of the person you are pointing a finger at.”

“Love freely, but build wisely.”

“You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all.”

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”