John Dewey Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

  John Dewey

  Path, Resistance, Ruts

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Richard Rorty (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.136, SIU Press

• Men live in a community in virtue of the things which they have in common; and communication is the way in which they come to possess things in common. What they must have in common in order to form a community or society are aims, beliefs, aspirations, knowledge - a common understanding - likemindedness as the sociologists say.

  John Dewey

  Communication, Men, Order

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.10, Courier Corporation

• The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.

  John Dewey

  Religious, Atheism, Belief

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.241, University of Illinois Press

• The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about values and purposes that should direct his conduct is the deepest problem modern life. It is the problem of any philosophy that is not isolated from life.

  John Dewey

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Men

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Stephen Toulmin (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929”, p.204, SIU Press

• The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Doe, Belief

  John Dewey (2007). “Experience And Education”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

• 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

  Men, History, Intellectual

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1977). “The Poems of John Dewey”, p.61, SIU Press

• Mankind likes to think in terms of extreme opposites. It is given to formulating its beliefs in terms of Either/Ors, between which it recognizes no intermediate possibilities.

  John Dewey

  Education, Truth, Thinking

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.1, Kappa Delta Pi

• The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals.

  John Dewey

  Men, Mind, Care

  "Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.

• Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Democracy, Culture

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.151, SIU Press

• That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief does not seem unreasonable. Nor is it absurd to expect that they should go forth with a lively interest in the ways in which knowledge is improved and a marked distaste for all conclusions reached in disharmony with the methods of scientific inquiry.

  John Dewey

  School, Knowledge, Science

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, H. S. Thayer (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1910-1911”, p.77, SIU Press

• It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

  John Dewey

  Belief, Troublesome, Alterations

  John Dewey (1986). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.136, SIU Press

• It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.

  John Dewey

  Weed, Intelligent, Giving

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.227, SIU Press

• Every one of the constituent elements of a social group, in a modern city as in a savage tribe, is born immature, helpless, without language, beliefs, ideas, or social standards. Each individual, each unit who is the carrier of the life-experience of his group, in time passes away. Yet the life of the group goes on.

  John Dewey

  Cities, Ideas, Immature

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.8, Courier Corporation

• The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Eye, Ideas

  John Dewey (1986). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.136, SIU Press

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