John Dewey Quotes

He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

All that is solid melts into air. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

Change is certain. Progress is not.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.

Everything changes with time. You can't predict where you're gonna be next year; you have no idea, you know what I mean?

Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script and changing constantly and so many people don't know who they will be and who they will be with a year from now.

The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.

We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

To innovate is not to reform.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.