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Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.

— Abraham Lincoln, Former US President

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

— Oscar Wilde, Irish Poet and Playwright

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

— Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance Artist

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

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

— Aristotle, Greek Philosopher and Scientist

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

— Thomas Hexley, English Biologist

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

— Abhijit Naskar, Author

Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature: it is part of the interplay between us and nature.

— Heisenberg, German Theoretical Physicist

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

— Isaac Newton, Physicist

Never mistake motion for action.

—  Ernest Hemingway,  American novelist
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