Though there is great difference of opinion regarding the antiquity of Egyptian civilisation, yet all authorities agree in the statement that, however far back they go, they find no uncivilised state of society.

Alan Marshal - Robert Landis

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity, who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity, who was able to move others.

How long can this situation last and be tolerated? When Imam Ali, Commander of the Faithful, heard that an anklet was forcefully removed from the feet of a Jewish woman by the invaders in one of the frontier cities under his rule, he said, "If a man dies from grief because of this act, he should not be reprimanded.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

[https://sankhya.isical.ac.in/authors/3793 Rajendran Narayanan's profile] at Sankhya

The authorities should scout for young talent in rural areas and groom them into world-class players. I think it is quite possible given the pool of potential star players we have here.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

Theophrastus of Eresus... wrote a book On Winds and on Weather Signs, but like most other Greek philosophers, he was hardly the man to adopt patient and exact observation in place of dogmatic assertion and the teaching of authority.

[https://books.google.com/books?&as_auth=%22Nazrul+Islam+%28Kazi%29%22 Nazrul Islam, at Google Books]

DePauw University News [http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=17824 "Closing of the American Mind Author Allan Bloom Calls on DePauw Students to Seize "Charmed Years"]. Ubben Lecture Series : 11 September 1987, Greencastle, Indiana. (Accessed 16 May 2007).

Shelley was kicked out of Oxford—I think the story is unauthenticated, but who cares—because he painted a sign on the end wall of a dead-end alley: THIS WAY TO HEAVEN. I feel that every now and then his sign needs repainting.

Bomanz could not get away from the bird, who, if he had been human, would have hung out in taverns masquerading as the world’s foremost authority, armed with an uninformed and ready opinion on every conceivable subject. His cheerful bigotry and who-cares ignorance drove the old man’s temper to its limit.

India has a medieval and authoritarian structure of society and the tradition of science is not yet strong. The power of government officials is increasing as an inescapable result of the pervasive anthoritarian character of lndian society.