Philosophy Quotes

Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.

~ Abhijit Naskar

This is not education my friend. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens, and thereby falsely labeled as Education.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life.

~ Abhijit Naskar

All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Mind is the Alpha – Mind is the Omega. There is nothing else in the pursuit of knowledge. And more importantly, there is nothing else in education. All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Superficial knowledge is potentially more dangerous than ignorance. It gives a false sense of security encouraging an ignorant man to persevere in his efforts that can result in huge damage.

~ Eraldo Banovac

If you cannot solve a problem, ask someone who knows.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception - it means breaking the barriers of the rugged sociological system that impede in the progress of human civilization - it means trying out new things for the first time in human history and succeeding in a few while failing in some. And that is how a species grows to become more advanced.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Real education leads to the liberation of the mind.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Those who have no knowledge are often willing to occupy influential positions with the aim of acquiring every possible benefit.

~ Eraldo Banovac

A man's vanity often goes hand in hand with his lack of knowledge.

~ Eraldo Banovac

What one person calls miracle, I call nature.

~ Abhijit Naskar

No knowledge comes from the outside world or an imaginary supernatural paradise.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Imagine the ancient society of India, and in fact all over the world, a few thousands years ago. In those days, rational thinking was quite scarce. Ignorance was the default mode of thinking. Only a handful of individuals were capable of higher intellectual thinking.

~ Abhijit Naskar

If Socrates was alive today he would say : I know that I know everything. That's what contemporary philosophers do.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness into the vivacious light of the day.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Truth evolves incessantly. If it does not, it's no truth at all.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The purpose of education should ultimately be the advancement of the species. And for this to actually happen, the world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The natural order of life is not the thinking and imagination, but living in the moment, with absolute trust.

~ Roshan Sharma

It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I agree with Abhijit Naskar that the path of tolerance is the only way—but it must be accompanied by continued pressure to break down barriers to access to information, so that our tolerance isn’t exploited to further the ends of totalitarian religious groups.

~ Daniel C. Dennett

When you perceive through your senses, the object may be, of the outside world, but you see the object, inside of you, in your awareness field.

~ Roshan Sharma

Yet I loathe the thought of annihilating myself quite as much now as I ever did. I think with sadness of all the books I’ve read, all the places I’ve seen, all the knowledge I’ve amassed and that will be no more. All the music, all the paintings, all the culture, so many places: and suddenly nothing. ... If it had at least enriched the earth; if it had given birth to… what? A hill? A rocket? But no. Nothing will have taken place. I can still see the hedge of hazel trees flurried by the wind and the promises with which I fed my beating heart while I stood gazing at the gold-mine at my feet: a whole life to live. The promises have all been kept. And yet, turning an incredulous gaze towards that young and credulous girl, I realise with stupor how much I was gypped.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Creativity is a song of knowledge, imagination, and action.

~ Debasish Mridha

Everything turns in circles and spirals with the cosmic heart until infinity. Everything has a vibration that spirals inward or outward — and everything turns together in the same direction at the same time. This vibration keeps going: it becomes born and expands or closes and destructs — only to repeat the cycle again in opposite current. Like a lotus, it opens or closes, dies and is born again. Such is also the story of the sun and moon, of me and you. Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.

~ Suzy Kassem

Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it’s breathtaking.

~ Carlo Rovelli

Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting together, said to them, “Either I am much deceived,or by your cheerful and pleasant countenances, you are engaged in no very deep discourse.” To which one of them, Heracleon the Megarean, replied: “ ’Tis for such as are puzzled about inquiring whether the future tense of the verb Ballo be spelt with adouble L, or that hunt after the derivation of the comparatives Cheirou and Beltiou, and the superlatives Cheiriotou and Beliotou, to knit their brows whilst discoursing of their science; but as to philosophical discourses, they always divert and cheer up those that entertain them, and never deject them or make them sad.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Knowledge is the most essential ingredient of life, and it comes from curiosity.

~ Debasish Mridha

Common sense comes not just from knowledge, but also from wisdom.

~ Debasish Mridha

If your thirst for knowledge is strong enough, you will find the waters to satisfy it.

~ Debasish Mridha

When, at a closer glance, so many objects are questionable, when all knowledge seems to be clothed in a kind of deep unknowing, why do we still place any trust at all in reality as it appears to us, in the world in which we seem to live?

~ Markus Gabriel

We live in a highly complex, technological world – and it's not entirely obvious what's right and what's wrong in any given situation, unless you can parse the situation, deconstruct it. People just don't have the insight to be able to do that very effectively.

~ Christopher Langan

It is always healthy to be honest.

~ Amit Kalantri

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

~ Amit Kalantri

Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist.

~ Amit Kalantri

Knowledge is a potential power when we use it to gain wisdom through reflection and careful actions.

~ Debasish Mridha

Don’t accept any knowledge or conventional wisdom without critically questioning it first.

~ Debasish Mridha

Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world.

~ Debasish Mridha

A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.

~ Amit Kalantri