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Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

— Robert G. Ingersoll, American Lawyer

I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent. 

— Rahul Dravid, Former Indian cricketer

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

— Gilles Deleuze, 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

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

— Jonah Lehrer, American Novelist

The best brains of the Nation may be found on the last benches of the Classroom

—  A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, Former Indian President

I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.

— Deborah J. Lightfoot, The Wysard

Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind. 

— Ben Okri,  Nigerian Poet and Novelist

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

— E.M. Forster, English Novelist

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

— Abhijit Naskar, Author
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