Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

I like to make blank pages darker. It's this thing I do.

Good things are always appreciated, bad things deserve ignorance.

I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

Man's greatest battle is being a true philosopher.

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.