Quote by John Dewey
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of men

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. – John Dewey

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The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative. – John Dewey

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Education
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Genuine ignorance is… profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. – John Dewey

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Ignorance
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The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. – John Dewey

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work
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[T]he historian and the detective have much in common. – Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences

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Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family. – Novak Djokovic

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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. – Anatole France

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I want to go down in history. – Haile Gebrselassie

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