A being connected with other beings cannot perform his own activities without taking the activities of others into account. For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. When he moves he stirs them and reciprocally.

The origin of thinking is some perplexity, confusion or doubt.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.

All genuine learning comes through experience.

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.

If a person cannot foresee the consequences of his act, and is not capable of understanding what he is told about its outcome by those with more experience, it is impossible for him to guide his act intelligently. In such a state, every act is alike to him.