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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Teaching

"If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness."

Children Country Teaching
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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
Teaching

"My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience... My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold onto or worship. My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river. Only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation."

Mean Philosophy Teaching
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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
Teaching

"Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect."

Religious Views Teaching
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Martin Gardner Mathematician
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"All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics."

Teaching Math Depth
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Trip Lee Rapper, Author, Pastor
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"Young men just don't know what it means to be a man. There are so many lies about what it means to be a man whether that be get a bunch of girls or get a bunch of money or don't cry and don't have emotions. Nobody is teaching them how to be men."

Lying Girl Teaching
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Confucius Philosopher
Teaching

"Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger."

Lying Teaching Educational
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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
Teaching

"We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop"

Teaching Leader Enough Time
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Kofi Annan Diplomat, Politician
Teaching

"People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what – and who – we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings."

People Hate Teaching
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Roger Nash Baldwin Civil Liberties Advocate
Teaching

"I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching."

Christian Teaching Liberty
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Muhammad Ali Boxer, Activist
Teaching

"If the culprits are Muslim, they have twisted the teachings of Islam. Whoever performed, or is behind, the terrorist attacks in the United States of America does not represent Islam. God is not behind assassins."

America Powerful Teaching
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