Wise Sayings Quotes

A being with no faith in the human self is a being with no spirit of life, regardless of how many Fathers or Holy Spirits or Sons it believes in.

~ Abhijit Naskar

India was and to some extent, still is, a nation where its citizens care more about their religious freedom than any other earthly possession. Give them food or not, it doesn’t matter to them, as long as they are allowed to practice their religion. But, take away their religion, they will fight till the last breath of their life.

~ Abhijit Naskar

In India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone - the bed-rock - the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.

~ Abhijit Naskar

God lives in and through the human mind, and not in any church, synagogue, temple or mosque.

~ Abhijit Naskar

All the beauty lies in the sacredness of the heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Resentment lies in the heart of fools.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is a light of liberty.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no greater poverty, than poverty of the mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Meditation is the energy of the mind

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Troubles teaches us what we must know.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God.

~ Abhijit Naskar

They say, love God, for it is the greatest virtue. I say, love humans, for there is no greater virtue, no greater religion, than the love of humanity.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The only measure of judging a human being is through that person’s character, because character is not determined by race, religion, gender or social status. And one who recognizes this simple fact of human life behaves the same with the scientist, the janitor and the sex-worker.

~ Abhijit Naskar

One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowledge shall set the mind free.

~ Abhijit Naskar

All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society.

~ Abhijit Naskar

If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The system that aims at educating our boys and girls in the same manner as in the circus where the trainer teaches the lion to sit on a stool, has not understood the true meaning of education itself. 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

A healthy and ideal system of education would be where a teacher would patiently impart knowledge, instead of curriculum, upon the students, only after assessing their acceptability – where a student would acquire knowledge in order to learn, not to earn – where the parents would be willing to make necessary sacrifices in order to adorn their child with curiosity and thereafter nourish that curiosity, regardless of how absurdly impractical it becomes to the eyes of the society.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The point is, education in its truest form, is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the civilized elements of human consciousness. Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life. The ability of being educated is what distinguishes humans from animals. You can teach a cockatoo to repeat a bunch of vocabularies, but you cannot teach it to construct a space shuttle and go to the moon.

~ Abhijit Naskar

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

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

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

Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Knowledge is light.God is light.God is knowledge.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A search for knowledge is a search for the truth.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is wise to learn from the great sacred-souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The strength of every individual is the grace for great work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Without failure, there is no success.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who mock at you, shall one day worship you.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It is not speed that matters, it's persistence.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The real battle is within yourself.

~ Abhijit Naskar