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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

— Victor Hugo, French Poet

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

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

— Emmanuel Levinas, French philosopher

What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.

— Vikram Sarabhai, Indian Scientist

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

— Steve Allen, Actor

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

— Nelson Mandela, Former South African President

I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!

— J.K.Rowling, Author

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

— Mark Twain, American Writer

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

— Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist

No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.

— Abhijit Naskar, Author
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