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Quote by John Dewey
We only think when we are confronted with problems. - John Dewey

We only think when we are confronted with problems. – John Dewey

Other quotes by John Dewey

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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John Dewey
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We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice. – John Dewey

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Miscellaneous
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John Dewey
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Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. – John Dewey

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Education
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Other Quotes from
Problems
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A problem is your chance to do your best. – Duke Ellington

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Problems

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. – Poul Anderson

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Problems

But Jesus, when you dont have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, its sex. When you have both, its health, you worry about getting ruptured or something. If everything is simply jake then youre frightened of death. – J. P. Donleavy

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Problems

The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. – Albert Einstein

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Problems

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Men dont come up to you to just talk. We come up to you with a plan. Were looking across the room at you, and we dont care about your hopes and dreams. We dont care about what your future holds. We saw something we wanted. – Steve Harvey

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Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect. – Freeman Dyson

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It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else. – Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923

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I think that NATO is itself a war criminal. – Harold Pinter

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