John Dewey

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

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

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

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

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

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

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

No man's credit is as good as his money.

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

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

Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.