Intelligent thinking means an ...

Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. \'Thought\' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.
Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is different from that which would have been followed if intelligent observation had not effected an inference as to the future.
 John Dewey

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Arriving at one point is the starting point to another.
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 John Dewey
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
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 John Dewey