The Quest for Certainty Quotes

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. ”
― John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action

“Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.”
― John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action

“When theories of values do not afford intellectual assistance in framing ideas and beliefs about values that are adequate to direct action, the gap must be filled by other means. If intelligent method is lacking, prejudice, the pressure of immediate circumstance, self-interest and class-interest, traditional customs, institutions of accidental historic origin, are not lacking, and they tend to take the place of intelligence.”
― John Dewey, The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action