John Dewey Quotes

Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.

If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth.

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads.

Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.

Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the less intelligent you are. Intelligence is the capacity to be here-now, to be in this moment and nowhere else. Then you are awake.

Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough.

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!

Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

Forgiveness is the key that can unshackle us from a past that will not rest in the grave of things over and done with. As long as our minds are captive to the memory of having been wronged, they are not free to wish for reconciliation with the one who wronged us.

We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past, and the expectant air of walking into a brighter future.

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.

"Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their own transformation and liberation.

And right action is freedom From past and future also.

I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.

Louise, I would gladly fire the past for you, go and not look back. I have been reckless before, never counting the cost, oblivious to the cost. Now, I've done the sums ahead. I know what it will mean to redeem myself from the accumulations of a lifetime. I know and I don't care. You set before me a space uncluttered by association. It might be a void or it might be a release. Certainly I want to take the risk. I want to take the risk because the life I have stored up is going mouldy.

Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.