John Dewey

Search for a single, inclusive good is doomed to failure. Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situation of experience its own full and unique meaning.

Never shrink from doing anything which your business calls you to do. The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

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

Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Education is life itself.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.