John Dewey Quotes

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.

Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.

I reserve the right to think many different things and to change my mind and to even be wrong.

By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education. Psychologist Herbert Gerjuoy of the Human Resources Research Organization phrases it simply: 'The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction — how to teach himself. Tomorrow's illiterate will not be the man who can't read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.'

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.

The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

You have to learn and keep learning.

You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.

I try not to be an ideologue about anything. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'm willing to evolve.

You can't let criticism stop you from learning new things.

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.

You discover your brain is a powerful tool, something that is so powerful that sometimes you are surprised by the outcomes, how quickly it adapts to situations and how quickly you learn.

No matter how much you know, you can always learn more and be a good listener.

I prefer to listen to people who change their mind now and then.

I am a person always with an open mind.

I am not wise, but I can always learn.

Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honourable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or intolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world.

I like to think that I try to learn something every day - and change my views, modify my views as I learn.

If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.