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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  1. The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie. - Shannon L. Alder

  2. Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone. - Roy T. Bennett

  3. Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices. - Roy T. Bennett

  4. Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today. - Roy T. Bennett

  5. Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack of belief. If you have no magic with you it is not because magic does not exist but it is because you do not believe... - C. Joybell C.

More Quotes By John Dewey
  1. Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

  2. The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

  3. There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so...

  4. Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.

  5. Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

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