Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.