John Dewey Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we take on and wear when we assimilate the culture of our own time and place. But intelligent furthering of culture demands that we take some of them off, that we inspect them critically to see what they are made of and what wearing them does to us. We cannot achieve recovery of primitive naïveté. But there is attainable a cultivated naïveté of eye, ear and thought.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Recovery, Eye

  Jo Ann Boydston, John Dewey, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 1: 1925, Experience and Nature”, p.40, SIU Press

• If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.

  John Dewey

  Growing Up, Eye, Color

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.23, Courier Corporation

• If the eyes are open and there is light, seeing occurs; the stimulus is but a condition of the fulfillment of the proper function of the organ, not an outside interruption. To some extent, then, all direction or control is a guiding of activity to its own end; it is an assistance in doing fully what some organ is already tending to do.

  John Dewey

  Eye, Light, Function

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.21, 谷月社

• Even when a person is frightened by threats into doing something, the threats work only because the person has an instinct of fear. If he has not, or if, though having it, it is under his own control, the threat has no more influence upon him than light has in causing a person to see who has no eyes.

  John Dewey

  Eye, Light, Influence

  John Dewey (0101). “Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.25, Prabhat Prakashan

• 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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