#rational

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#alone #assembly #bondage #burnt #cannot

Ben Says: To all of the children of today...Work hard & study well. You can be me...because I was once you! Education will always get you far! ↗

— Timothy Pina

#inspirational #education

Formal education makes you a living, self-education makes you a legend. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#formal-education #inspirational #self-education #education

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen. ↗

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

#inspirational #prejudice #education

He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure in heaven, and that even the king had to kneel down in church. Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his critical faculties, and placed his trust in his superiors. His reward had been treachery. ↗

— Ken Follett

#faith #inspirational #religious #faith

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#corruption #culture #education #harmony #humor

The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them. I meet far too many people who are going to be writers 'someday.' When they are out of high school, when they've finished college, after the wedding, when the kids are older, after I retire . . . That is such a trap You will never have any more free time than you do right now. So, whether you are 12 or 70, you should sit down today and start being a writer if that is what you want to do. You might have to write on a notebook while your kids are playing on the swings or write in your car on your coffee break. That's okay. I think we've all 'been there, done that.' It all starts with the writing. ↗

— Robin Hobb

#writing #faith

Nothing is as real as a dream. Responsibilites need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, NO ONE can take it away. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#inspirational #talents #dreams

the friend neither sang of grief, nor open his heart to me he muttled in his inquisition and wasted his life and his dreams ↗

— William Graham

#dreams

Tu inspiraste Rowling, e foi nas terras de Morpheus que se moldou Hogwarts. Tu inspiraste Tolkien, e foi nas terras de Phantasos que se anexaram as extensões de Terra-Média. Tu inspiraste Lovecraft e em minhas terras se fixou Miskatonic. Então eu te pergunto com sinceridade, anjo: até onde vai tua vontade de ser coadjuvante em um mundo de formas e pensamentos? ↗

— Raphael Draccon

#inspirational #dreams