Quotes for Essay Paper(UPSC)

 

Plato

1. Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. 

Aristotle

1. Follow what is right, not what is established.
2. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
3. No great mind ever existed without a touch of madness.
4. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
5. Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
6. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
7. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Karl Marx

1. Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. 

Einstein

1. Science without religion is lame, and Religion without Science is blind.
2. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
3. Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

1. Poverty is the Worst Form of Violence.  
2. An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
3. Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
4. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
5. First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
6. Democracy gives the weak the same chance as the strong. 
7. Court of conscience is the highest court. 
8. Work is Worship and duty is God. 
9. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attributes of the strong. 
10. Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony. 
11. Humanity is an ocean: if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean doesn't become dirty. 
12. The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane. 
13. An Error Does Not Become Truth by Reason of Multiplied Propagation, Nor Does Truth Become an Error Because Nobody Sees It.
14. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
15. Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding
16. Asia has to conquer the West through love the truth. (Asia Relation Conference, March-April 1947) 

The Asia Relation Conference held at Delhi as decided by Nehru, but Gandhiji wanted to held the conference at a village of India. He wants to show that development start from village(Role of village in the development of nation). 

Abraham Lincoln

1. If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it. 
2. Government of the People, by the People, for the People

In Democracy Summit 2021- Modiji added with the people within the people. 

Swami Vivekananda 

1. Education form character, strength of Mind and intellect. 
2. Awareness is a simple act of acknowledging the reality as it is.
3. Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
4. The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

Rabindranath Tagore 

1. A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
2. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls....... Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake(Part of poem "Where the mind is without fear"- a prayer to God regarding freedom) 

Intial lines of poem

Where the mind is without fear

And the head is held high

Where knowledge is free...... 

B. R. Ambedkar

1. I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
2. Life should be great rather than long.
3. Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy
4. Caste is not just a division of labour, it is a division of labourers.

Dalai Lama

1. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple with philosophy of kindness.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

1. It's the family and teachers that shapes the future of a nation. 
2. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Martin Luther King

1. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
2. A right delayed is a right denied.
3. Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
4. In matter of conscience, the law of majority has no place.

Confucius 

1. Righteousness is the foundation stone of peace and good governance.

Hegel(Political Thinker) 

1. what's real is rational, what's rational is real

G. D. Anderson

1. Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong, it’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.

Pushyamitra Upadhyay(Hindi Poet) 

1. O Draupadi! Take arms in your hand, Govind will not come this time. (Quite on woman empowerment) 

Angela Schwindt 

1. While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. 

Vladimir Lenin 

1. There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen. 

J. S. Mill

1. Truth emerges through a conflict of opposing view. 
2. If all but one has a difference of opinion, we must listen. 

Helen Keller

1. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement, nothing can be done without hope.

Thomas Jefferson

1. Information is the currency of democracy. 

Ottovon Bismarck 

1. Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. 

Vince Lombardi

1. Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Henry A. Kissinger(1972- led to the development of Chinese economy) 

1. Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continent; who controls money can control the world. 
2. No permanent friends or enemies, only permanent interests.

Don Taylor(British Journalists, 1969) 

1. The fate of Asia hangs on India survival

During the time of Independence Don Taylor predicted the disintegration of India and by 1969 his view got completely change and he showed how fate of Asia lies on India. 

For Ethics Paper

J Robert Oppenheimer(Father of the Atomic Bomb, Incharge of Manhattan Project USA) 

1. Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. 

Morphed version of Bhagavat Gita, where Lord Krishan tells Arjun:

“Time I am, the great destroyer of the worlds, and I have come here to destroy all people.”

Oppenheimer was in Professional vs ethical dilemma.(Invention of nuclear bomb vs its impact) 

Inspired by Bhagavat Gita, Oppenheimer used this quote to display regrets about his invention of nuclear weapons.

Others

1. There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience. A guilt conscience is a bed of thrones.