John Dewey Quotes

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

John Dewey

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• There are certain things women are better at than men.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Men
  • Women
  • Better

• I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Work
  • Things
  • Making

• I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Know
  • Red
  • Stress

• I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Live
  • History

• Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Teach
  • Insight
  • Reveal

• I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Going
  • Debt
  • Ceiling

• No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • People
  • Great
  • War

• Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Game
  • You
  • Baseball

• I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Father
  • Want

• I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Enjoy

• Balconies scare me, and I would never do a shoot on one. I am afraid of heights.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Afraid
  • Shoot
  • Heights

• If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Courage

• What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Success
  • Action
  • Government

• My health is 100% more important than coming back to wrestling. Being a good father is more important than going out there and expounding on my belief that doing more hammerlocks in wrestling is good for the business!

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Important
  • Business

• If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Help

• The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

  

  John D. Rockefeller
  • Money
  • Running

• The General has got the gout, and Mrs. Maitland the jaundice. Miss Debary, Susan, and Sally, all in black, but without any stature, made their appearance, and I was as civil to them as their bad breath would allow me.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Bad
  • Black

• This first stage of the life of the whole race is savagery, raw nature:… a condition in which man enjoys the most exquisite goods, equality and freedom, in full abundance, and would also enjoy them forever, if he would follow the hint of nature and understand the art of not abusing his powers and preventing the outbreak of his excessive passions.

  

  Adam Weishaupt
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic.

  

  Jonas Gahr Store
  • Nature
  • Activities
  • Ecosystem

• China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Character
  • Think
  • You

• Two days a week, I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer's collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 P.M.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings

• My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Philosophy
  • Simplicity
  • Plus

• There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Missing

• By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

  

  John Dewey