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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

The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Writer

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?

— Emmanuel Levinas, French philosopher

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

— Nelson Mandela, Former South African President

Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.”

— Abhijit Naskar, Author

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

— Charles Dickens, English Writer

The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.

— Robert Pirsig, American Writer

I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.

— CV Raman, Indian Physicist

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

— George Orwell, English Novelist
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