Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Quotes On Education For Students On Teacher Day

The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.

Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for salvation, and non-acceptance thereof is a heinous sin meriting eternal punishment in hell.

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.

The word Atman (Soul) means the "breath of life". Atman is the principle of man's life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect, and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind, or intellect.

The end-product of education should be a free creative man, who can battle against historical circumstances and adversities of nature.

It is not God that is worshipped but the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not a violation of integrity.

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free.

When we think we know we cease to learn.

Into the bosom of the one great sea Flow streams that come from the hills on every side, Their names are various as their springs And thus in every land do men bow down To one great God, though known by many names.