TuesdaySep 08, 2026
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To me faith means not worrying.
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheep like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
Education is a social process ... education is growth ... education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts.
The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its children.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
The future of religion is connected with the possibility of developing a faith in the possibilities of human experience and human relationships that will create a vital sense of the solidarity of human interests and inspire action to make that sense a reality.
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.
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.
Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.
Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
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