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.
Interpretation
Luck can benefit intelligent individuals while avoiding those who lack insight.
This quote by John Dewey highlights the idea that luck is a presence in everyone's lives, but its favor often lies with those who are intelligent and able to take advantage of opportunities. It suggests that intelligence can help one navigate life's uncertainties and harness luck effectively, while ignorance may lead to missed chances and unfortunate outcomes.
In practice
Use this quote in a motivational speech to encourage students to value their education and intelligence.
Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer-in of the true Kingdom of God.
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
It science involves an intelligent and persistent endeavor to revise current beliefs so as to weed out what is erroneous, to add to their accuracy, and, above all, to give them such shape that the dependencies of the various facts upon one another may be as obvious as possible.
For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an βism becomes so involved in reaction against other βisms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.
Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
People fall so in love with their pain, they canβt leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
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