Inspirational Quotes By Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan: One of India’s greatest educators and a former president is Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Generations of leaders, educators, and philosophers have been inspired by his legacy, which upholds the principles of tolerance, education, and mutual understanding between cultures.
- “Tolerance is the homage which the finite mind pays to the inexhaustibility of the infinite.”
- “Knowledge gives us power, love gives us fullness.”
- “When we think we know we cease to learn.”
- “Books are the means by which we build bridges between cultures.”
- “The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.”
- “God lives, feels, and suffers in every one of us, and in the course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.”
- Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers’ Day.
- “True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.”
- “Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.”
- “A life of joy and happiness is possible only on the basis of knowledge and science.”
- “The end-product of education should be a free creative man, who can battle against historical circumstances and adversities of nature.”
- “The main function of a university is not to grant degrees and diplomas but to develop the university spirit and advance learning. The former is impossible without corporate life, the latter without honours and post-graduate”
- “Discontent with the actual is the necessary precondition of every moral change and spiritual rebirth.”
- “When we think we know we cease to learn.
- “The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is as good or bad as he imagines.”
- God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in the course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.
- “Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be experienced. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are sins that exceed his love.”
- “True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.”
- “Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.”
- “My ambition is not only to chronicle but to interpret and reveal the movement of the mind and unfold the sources of India in the profound plane of human nature.”