John Dewey: "We can have facts without thinking but we..."

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John Dewey (; October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. He was one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

—John Dewey

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A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both.

—John Dewey

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Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

—John Dewey

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

—John Dewey

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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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In that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.

—John Corey Whaley in Noggin

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An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply.

—Zadie Smith

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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

—Niels Bohr

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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

—George Bernard Shaw

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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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