“The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.”

We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.

To me faith means not worrying.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

To me, faith means not worrying.

I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.

Wonder is the mother of all science.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I’m an atheist.

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.

I thought I’d begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

I started my life with Rs 5,000.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.