John Dewey Quotes

To the being of fully alive the future is not ominous but a promise it surrounds the present like a halo.

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

To me faith means not worrying.

Since changes are going on anyway the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Condi-tions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in they are to be utilized and directed.

Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

We only think when we are confronted with a problem.

Life itself consists of phases in which the organism falls out of step with the march of surrounding things and then recovers unison with it—either through effort or by some happy chance. And, in a growing life, the recovery is never mere return to a prior state, for it is enriched by the state of disparity and resistance through which it has successfully passed. If the gap between organism and environment is too wide, the creature dies. If its activity is not enhanced by the temporary alienation, it merely subsists. Life grows when a temporary falling out is a transition to a more extensive balance of the energies of the organism with those of the conditions under which it lives.