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An Understatement

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Rabindranath Tagore My college had an essay competition a few weeks ago. I was interested in giving a shot but I guess I just forgot all about it; I still wanted to write down something.  So, here’s what I have to say about one of Rabindranath Tagore’s reputed quotes, “A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it” If you haven’t already got it, what he was basically trying to say was that if you rely wholly on reasoning devoid of sympathy or empathy, you’re going to be a bottleneck on yourself or ruin your prospects. At first, of course, I’d have to agree but at the same time, I want to disagree maybe because I’m that stubborn or just because it looked odd to me that he stated something so self-evident. Whatever the case may be, I think he got ‘logic’ all wrong and so did I but since I wanted to cook up some counter-argument against his statement one way or the other, I looked it up. en.oxforddictionaries.com defines it as “Re...