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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

— Marie Curie, Physicist and Chemist

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

— Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

— Samuel Butler, English Author

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

— Charles Darwin, English Biologist

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

— Victor Hugo, French Poet

I don’t believe in taking right decisions. Take decisions and make them right.

— Ratan Tata, Indian Industrialist

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

— Aristotle, Greek Philosopher and Scientist

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

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

— E.M. Forster, English Novelist
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