John Dewey Quotes

When you change what you believe, you change what you do.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

Our beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we alter our perception, our version of reality.

It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.

...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

Changing behaviours begins with evolving beliefs.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs.

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

No one has ever abandoned a belief because he was forced to do so.

All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief.

Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.

When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.

I've got so much in my brain and I want to change the way we think sometimes.

You know, as Secretary of State, I've been privileged to represent this great country, and I know its strengths, and I know its challenges. One of its strengths is the belief - here and abroad - that this is a place where you get ahead on merit. It doesn't matter where you came from; it matters where you're going.

The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.

Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them in that conviction; and, therefore, affairs should be managed in such a way that when they no longer believe, they can be made to believe by force.

As a producer, it starts when I talk about privacy and silence. It starts before anybody believes in it. And I think that's, you have to have a real sense of self, and in order to push things through. And so often, what's interesting, is how many people dismiss an idea that eventually everybody [gloms] onto. So to me it's, that's what I mean by hard.

...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them.

When you find yourself thinking about someone or something in the same old negative way, just stop yourself. Think. Check. Change. Refresh. Job done. Smile. Move on. Do this enough times and you will change. For the better; for the stronger.

Ifyou believe in something, work nights and weekends, it won't feel like work.