Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Death Anniversary: 15 Inspirational Quotes by the Former President – News18

Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was a distinguished statesman, philosopher, lecturer, scholar and a great orator. His ideas continue to influence today’s generation. Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was the first vice president and the second president of independent India. As an outstanding teacher, he was instrumental in improving India’s educational system. He also represented India at UNESCO (1946-52).

Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was also awarded the British Royal Order of Merit in 1963 as well as the Bharat Ratna in 1984. Additionally, he also received many nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. Today, April 17 marks his death anniversary. As we remember Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, let’s read some of his motivational quotes.

Inspiring Quotes by Dr Radhakrishnan to Uplift You

1. The main function of a university is not to grant degrees and diplomas but to develop the university spirit and advance learning. The former is impossible without corporate life, the latter without honours and post-graduate.
2. The end-product of education should be a free creative man, who can battle against historical circumstances and adversities of nature.
3. A life of joy and happiness is possible only on the basis of knowledge and science.
4. The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.
5. True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.
6. God lives, feels, and suffers in every one of us, and in the course of time, his attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.
7. Books are the means by which we build bridges between cultures.
8. Tolerance is the homage that the finite mind pays to the inexhaustibility of the infinite.
9. The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.
10. When we think we know we cease to learn.
11. 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.
12. Knowledge gives us power; love gives us the fullness.
13. It takes centuries to make a little history; it takes centuries of history to make a tradition.
14. Discontent with the actual is the necessary precondition of every moral change and spiritual rebirth.
15. The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.