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People who are more rational don’t perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.

— Jonah Lehrer, American Novelist

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

— Abhijit Naskar, Author

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

— Nelson Mandela, Former South African President

If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

— Annie Besant, British Theosophist

Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

— Steve Allen, Actor

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

— Charles Darwin, English Biologist

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

— E.M. Forster, English Novelist

Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.

— Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist
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