An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

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

After you understand about the sun and the stars and the rotation of the earth, you may still miss the radiance of the sunset.

It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

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