Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
“Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.”
— John Dewey · Lives
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Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
“Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.”
— John Dewey · Lives
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“Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.”
“There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.”
“Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry.”
“The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”
“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
“Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.”
“Most of what I do does not save lives.”
“So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.”
“I have only one sister, Asha Nanda, and she lives in Maharani Bagh.”
“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?”
“Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.”
“I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.”