Wise Sayings Quotes - Page 14

What one person calls miracle, I call nature.

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.

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.

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.

Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.

All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.

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.

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.

Real education leads to the liberation of the mind.

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.

The system that aims at educating our boys and girls in the same manner as in the circus where the trainer teaches the lion to sit on a stool, has not understood the true meaning of education itself. 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.

A healthy and ideal system of education would be where a teacher would patiently impart knowledge, instead of curriculum, upon the students, only after assessing their acceptability – where a student would acquire knowledge in order to learn, not to earn – where the parents would be willing to make necessary sacrifices in order to adorn their child with curiosity and thereafter nourish that curiosity, regardless of how absurdly impractical it becomes to the eyes of the society.

All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society.

Knowledge shall set the mind free.

One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The only measure of judging a human being is through that person’s character, because character is not determined by race, religion, gender or social status. And one who recognizes this simple fact of human life behaves the same with the scientist, the janitor and the sex-worker.

They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater religion, than the love of humanity.

Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God.

Meditation is the energy of the mind,

Lailah Gifty Akita

Troubles teaches us what we must know.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no greater poverty, than poverty of the mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is a light of liberty.

Lailah Gifty Akita

All the beauty lies in the sacredness of the heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Resentment lies in the heart of fools.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God lives in and through the human mind, and not in any church, synagogue, temple or mosque.

India was and to some extent, still is, a nation where its citizens care more about their religious freedom than any other earthly possession. Give them food or not, it doesn’t matter to them, as long as they are allowed to practice their religion. But, take away their religion, they will fight till the last breath of their life.

In India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone - the bed-rock - the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built.

The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.

Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative.

Faith in God is optional, but faith in the self – in the spirit within, is imperative. Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.

Have faith in yourself. Have faith in the human first, then God if you want.

A being with no faith in the human self is a being with no spirit of life, regardless of how many Fathers or Holy Spirits or Sons it believes in.

A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity, but the moment, that person starts to build a wall of separation between the self and the rest of humanity, coaxed by the textual commands of a scripture, the healthy religiousness turns into dangerous fundamentalism, which is a threat to both the self and the society.

Killing a bunch of Jihadis may be morally justified, to save humanity from their wrath, but it won't terminate Jihad for long. Jihad or Holy war would keep festering one way or another, until religious fundamentalism is eradicated from the human society. Until the whole humanity learns to scrutinize its most revered scriptures with the sharp tool of reasoning, Jihad will keep on striking over the world. If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primitive textual verses of the scriptures that demand one to kill or torture another being for holding a different belief system than one's own, then that entity is no being of the civilized human society, it is merely a pest from the stone-age. No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self. There shall be hope for harmony and peace in the world, only when fundamentalism is destroyed forever. Harmony is not a luxury, it is an existential necessity of the species. And to achieve it, if a hundred Bibles have to be sacrificed, then be it. But for no Bible, Quran or Gita, can harmony be compromised.

Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.

Life is nether food nor drink. But the faith of a dance dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Who are we, to pass judgment on one another. When we have once done the same foolish acts.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever you feel is the force of faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The truest family is the family of faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The fight of faith can only be won by the holy word of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Uncleanness is the works of the sinful nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Joyfully we undertake our daily work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't feel useless. Even a spoilt clock is right twice a day.

Unknown

The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity.

Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.

The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.

Feeding the ego is starving the wisdom, the choice is yours.

Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Religion without reason is merely an illusion of religion – it is a mockery of religion, like it has become today.

When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasoning, then only the brightest rays of religion can penetrate the darkest corners of the human society.

When you are wise, peace shall follow.

If you read proverbs, you will find answers to every puzzle.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you are financially affluent, think of adopting a kid and raise him or her right next to your biological offspring. And let your love become the proof of your parenthood, instead of your DNA.

Failures make character, not success.

I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing. Be proud to be stupid, be proud to be fool. Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect. I admit I am a fool, but at the very least, with each passing day I do my best to get lesser fool.

Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the illusion of intellect.

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

Imagination is a holy impressions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not spend all your strength to make money.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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