Quotes by Neuroscientists - Page 22

Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.
Abhijit Naskar
All great achievements are attained through mighty obstacles.
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Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in a thousand years attain greatness.
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You are not born to follow the society, you are born to inspire it - you are born to teach it - you are born to build it.
Abhijit Naskar
The world doesn't need a good woman who is meekly obedient to the uncivilized social norms that advocate female inferiority. The world needs those bad women who can think for themselves, to break the primeval norms of the society that consistently drag the human civilization back to the stone-age.
Abhijit Naskar
Work, Work and work, until you either succeed in your mission, or you die!
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You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken.
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Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life.
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Women are no sheep. Women are no fragile showpiece to be placed above the fire-place. Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world.
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Don’t be fearless, but tame your fears, and stop at nothing.
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The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence.
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A society where feminine beauty is defined not by the human self on genuine intellectual and sentimental grounds, but by a computer software on the grounds of economic interest, is more dead than alive. It is a society of human bodies, not human beings.
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How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human.
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Listen my dear sister! You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken. Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life.
Abhijit Naskar
The female brain itself is a highly intuitive emotion-processing machine, which when put to practice in the progress of the society, would do much more than any man can with all his analytical perspectives.
Abhijit Naskar
Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world. And given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world. Harmony and conflict-solving run in their veins. Whereas men have evolved into more authoritarian creatures.
Abhijit Naskar
I’d rather listen to what you think of yourself, than what the whole world has to say about you.
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I believe in you my friend, so much so, that if any of my ideas make you feel belittled in any manner, I want you to rise against me and throw my work into the fire. Any notion, any book, any institution that weakens the self instead of strengthening it, must be discarded at ones.
Abhijit Naskar
It is not speed that matters, it's persistence.
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Those who mock at you, shall one day worship you.
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Should you wish to pursue the infinity of truth, you must make yourself humble as ashes and vigorous as the wind.
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Education is a relentless voyage of discovery.
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Know the One - the Self, and you'll know the All.
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A library is more precious than a bank.
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Knowledge is worth nothing, until it is put to practice.
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It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.
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The purpose of education should be character-building.
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Never confuse belief with knowledge.
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It is one thing to believe and another to know.
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Self-knowledge is the greatest kind of knowledge.
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Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that knowledge into wisdom.
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The highest wisdom is to know that you know nothing.
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One who knows what he or she knows as well as what he or she does not know is a genius.
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Wisdom begins in knowing the self.
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Truth evolves incessantly. If it does not, it's no truth at all.
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Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception.
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The purpose of education should ultimately be the advancement of the species. And for this to actually happen, the world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.
Abhijit Naskar
There is a system alright, but the actual element of education has long gone.
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The are two kinds of people in this modern society. First and the majority are those fools who think they are wise, and second are the few wise individuals who know that they are fools.
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Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness into the vivacious light of the day.
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Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness. Come out into the vivacious light of the day where all the glory resides.
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Come out, O lions, and shake off the ancient mysticism and prejudices.
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No knowledge comes from the outside world or an imaginary supernatural paradise.
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Imagine the ancient society of India, and in fact all over the world, a few thousands years ago. In those days, rational thinking was quite scarce. Ignorance was the default mode of thinking. Only a handful of individuals were capable of higher intellectual thinking.
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What one person calls miracle, I call nature.
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Once you die, that’s it – game over.
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Once you die, that’s it – game over. Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self.
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Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self.
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every single explanation that your brain concocts about a certain phenomenon on earth, is merely a virtual hunch of the neurons. Now, when your brain has access to more information, the resulting hunch would be more accurate, than another person who has less access.
Abhijit Naskar
When you don’t have explanation for a certain phenomenon, as a real human, you should suspend judgement, instead of concocting supernatural explanations out of ignorance and primordial fanaticism.
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It is better to be foolish than a dilettante.
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The point is, education in its truest form, is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the civilized elements of human consciousness. Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life. The ability of being educated is what distinguishes humans from animals. You can teach a cockatoo to repeat a bunch of vocabularies, but you cannot teach it to construct a space shuttle and go to the moon.
Abhijit Naskar
Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.
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This is not education my friend. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens, and thereby falsely labeled as Education.
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Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.
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All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.
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Mind is the Alpha – Mind is the Omega. There is nothing else in the pursuit of knowledge. And more importantly, there is nothing else in education. All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.
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Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception - it means breaking the barriers of the rugged sociological system that impede in the progress of human civilization - it means trying out new things for the first time in human history and succeeding in a few while failing in some. And that is how a species grows to become more advanced.
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Real education leads to the liberation of the mind.
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For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, myself and many others, education is a relentless voyage of discovery. To us education is an everlasting quest for knowledge and wisdom.
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