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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“When you learn, teach. When you get, give.”

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

“What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.”

“You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.”

“Talk doesn't cook rice.”