John Quotes

The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

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

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.

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to nature to do the work they are responsible for doing.

I believe that in the ideal school we have the reconciliation of the individualistic and the institutional ideals.

When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from our idea of others and their good.

To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy.

Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of the land because they pay, not heal, the best.

Desperate times call for desperate analogies.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

I'm Polish, I carry no grudges.

If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.

The old economy was about people acquiring a single skill for life; the new economy is about life-long learning.

It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.

This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.

It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.

A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.

The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.

Beware of the fury of the patient man.

A happy genius is the gift of nature.

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.

Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

Politicians neither love nor hate.

War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.

What passion cannot music raise and quell!

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.