What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.

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

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

The world is shocked, or amused, by the sight of saintly old people hindering in the name of morality the removal of obvious brutalities from a legal system.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.