The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions.

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

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in the thin air of imaginative generalization; and it again lands for renewed observation rendered acute by rational interpretation.

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

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

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are cavalry charges in a battle - they are limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.