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I am pain stricken to say that, various “educational” institutions have adopted the medieval doctrine "fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom" as their motto. Let me tell you this, fear of the Lord, Santa Claus, Krishna, Thor, Hulk or any other imaginary being brings merely the illusion of wisdom, not wisdom. And illusion of wisdom is a billion times more harmful than lack of wisdom.
I am pain stricken to say that, various “educational” institutions have adopted the medieval doctrine "fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom" as their motto. Let me tell you this, fear of the Lord, Santa Claus, Krishna, Thor, Hulk or any other imaginary being brings merely the illusion of wisdom, not wisdom. And illusion of wisdom is a billion times more harmful than lack of wisdom.
Approximate author period: c. 2017 AD · contemporary
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- Abhijit Naskar
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- Approximate author period: c. 2017 AD · contemporary
Author activity documented by a first-person article dated 24 June 2017. A 21st-century author-period anchor, not the composition year of all attributed sayings. Source: https://naskarism.wordpress.com/2017/06/24/life-is-not-beautiful-if-there-is-no-human/ (accessed 2026-10-08).
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