John Dewey's Quote - Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of men

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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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No mans credit is as good as his money. – John Dewey

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To me faith means not worrying. – John Dewey

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. – John Dewey

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All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men. – John Alfred Spender, The Comments of Bagshot

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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors. – Nicolas Chamfort, Maxims and Considerations

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In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. – Charles Darwin

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Im not sure history has ended. – John Bolton

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