Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. |
Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril |
For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention |
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. |
I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself. |
It (modern philosophy) certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been historically associated |
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. |
Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid. |
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. |
No man's credit is as good as his money. |
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. |
School and education should not be confused; it is only school that can be made easy |
School is not preparation for life, but school is life |
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind |
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. |