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The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.
— Orville Dewey
As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.
— John Dewey
Women were tricky creatures under the best of circumstances. This was not the best of circumstances.
— Genevieve Dewey
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.
— John Dewey
If you're not in New York, you're camping out.
— Thomas Dewey
I do not think that any thorough-going modification of college curriculum would be possible without a modification of the methods of instruction.
— John Dewey
It wasn't his job to keep tabs on mob princesses, but this one was sort of a hobby.
— Genevieve Dewey
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.
— John Dewey
There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due.
— John Dewey
As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
— John Dewey
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
— John Dewey
Labor is man's greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working.
— Orville Dewey
Balance is balancing.
— John Dewey
Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.
— John Dewey
A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.
— John Dewey
The first election I remember was Dewey Truman in '48. I was, I guess, seven years old.
— George Will
Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.
— John Dewey
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
— John Dewey
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
— John Dewey
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.
— Spike Lee
To Dewey, if brevity was the soul of wit, stagecraft was the very center of politics.
— David Pietrusza
Cause and effect is infallible, like the shadow that follows one's body wherever it goes.
— Chokling Dewey Dorje
Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.
— Brian Selznick
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
— John Dewey
a problem well put is half solved.
— John Dewey
When you're leading, don't talk.
— Thomas Dewey
As trite as the thought was, even her butterflies got the butterflies with just a tilt of his lips, and it had always been so.
— Genevieve Dewey
A mixed up knot of incompatible roles, tied up too tight to know where one ended and another began.
— Genevieve Dewey
Insight into soul-action, ability to discriminate the genuine from the sham and capacity to further one and discourage the other.
— John Dewey
What I reach for first when I play is sound. Technique maybe, but there is technique in sound.
— Dewey Redman
Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.
— John Dewey
Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.
— John Dewey
Godliness is practical religion.
— Orville Dewey
By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.
— John Dewey
Truth is the root of all the charities.
— Orville Dewey
Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake.
— John Dewey
What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.
— John Dewey
There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.
— John Dewey
The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.
— John Dewey
No man's credit is as good as his money.
— John Dewey
Y'ever notice that sometimes we get so focused on the path we're treadin' that we lose sight of where we're goin' in the first place?
— Genevieve Dewey
The time is when a library is a school, and the librarian is the highest sense a teacher. - Melvil Dewey, 1876
— John Palfrey
The future of our civilisation depends upon the widening spread and deepening hold of the scientific habit of mind.
— John Dewey
We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.
— John Dewey
Intentions were powerful things.
— Genevieve Dewey
For there is nothing so perfect as a thing with no ending and no beginning, such as a family of souls intertwined.
— Genevieve Dewey
No, nothing much had changed in the old neighborhood. She was still just an actress in someone else's play.
— Genevieve Dewey
John Dewey was right that "failure is instructive," then Tolstoy's life is, well, an instructional gold mine.
— Leo Tolstoy
Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced.
— John Dewey
Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.
— John Dewey
An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.
— John Dewey
It isn't things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty.
— Genevieve Dewey
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
— John Dewey
Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself
— John Dewey
Politeness is practical Christianity.
— Orville 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
The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.
— Michelle Rodriguez
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
The listening part is afraid that there may not be time to say it. Dewey Dell - As I Lay Dying.
— William Faulkner
Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.
— John Dewey
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
— John Dewey
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
— John Dewey Polt
Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.
— John Dewey
Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.
— John Dewey
Education is a social process; education is growth; education is not preparation for life but is life itself.
— John Dewey
We only think when we are confronted with problems.
— John Dewey
Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.
— John Dewey
What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that that must community want for all it's children.
— John Dewey
I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.
— John Dewey
The conception of education as a social process and function has no definite meaning until we define the kind of society we have in mind.
— John Dewey
The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities
— John Dewey
Giving and taking of orders modifies actions and results, but does not of itself effect a sharing of purposes, a communication of interests.
— John Dewey