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
Your faith has saved you; go in peace.
Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten years ago. This simply amounts to a certificate that they have not grown-that they have not developed-and that they know just as little now as they ever did. The highest possible conception of consistency is to be true to the knowledge of today, without the slightest reference to what your opinion was years ago.
Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you.
Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
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