Quotes

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.” John Dewey

“Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.” John Dewey

“Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.” John Dewey

“One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.” John Dewey

“Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.” John Dewey

“Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.” John Dewey

“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

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

“Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.” John Dewey

“No man's credit is as good as his money.” John Dewey

“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

“Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.” John Dewey

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.” Emily Dickinson

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.” Emily Dickinson

“Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.” Emily Dickinson

“They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.” Emily Dickinson

“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.” Emily Dickinson

“Beauty is not caused. It is.” Emily Dickinson

“Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.” Emily Dickinson

“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” Emily Dickinson

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” Emily Dickinson

“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.” Emily Dickinson

“Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.” Emily Dickinson

“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” Emily Dickinson

“Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.” Emily Dickinson

“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.” Emily Dickinson

“A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.” Emily Dickinson

“To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” Emily Dickinson

“A wounded deer leaps the highest.” Emily Dickinson

“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” Emily Dickinson