Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Knowledge that does not generate achievement is a pale and bloodless thing, unworthy of mankind.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.