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

— Nelson Mandela, Former South African President

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

— Steve Allen, Actor

You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect and pride.

— Rahul Dravid, Former Indian cricketer

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

— Victor Hugo, French Poet

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

— CV Raman, Indian Physicist

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

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

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

— Ben Okri,  Nigerian Poet and Novelist

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

— Richard Feynman, American Theoretical Physicist
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