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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

— Robert Frost, American Poet

Writing my own novels in the ’90s…I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.

— Mary Doria Russell, American Novelist

That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

— George Orwell, English Novelist

Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.

— Abhijit Naskar, Author

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

— Lars Von Trier,  Danish film director

Never memorize something that you can look up.

— Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

— Victor Hugo, French Poet

An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.

— James Branch Cabell, American Author

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.

— Aristotle, Greek Philosopher and Scientist
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