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Quotes from Eminent Indians — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

1888–1975 India

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9 quotes

We become more religious in proportion to our readiness to doubt and not our willingness to believe.

Eminent Indians (1947)

To be ignorant is not the special prerogative of man; to know that he is ignorant is his special privilege.

Eminent Indians (1947)

The disciples surrounded with cheap marvels and wonders the lonely figure of that serene Soul, simple and austere in his yellow robes, walking with bared feet and bowed head towards Benares.

Eminent Indians (1947)

It takes centuries to make a little history; it takes centuries of history to make a tradition.

Eminent Indians (1947)

A stone is not self any more than a self is a stone.

Eminent Indians (1947)

Poets and prophets do not go into committees.

Eminent Indians (1947)

We are grown-up infants, and God is a sort of 'wet nurse' to humanity.

Eminent Indians (1947)

We invent by intuition, though we prove by logic.

Eminent Indians (1947)

We must respect our own dignity as rational beings and thus diminish the power of fraud. It is better to be free than be a slave, better to know than to be ignorant.

Eminent Indians (1947)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.