Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

You may not divide the seamless coat of learning.