Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

You deserve to be the person you were meant to be.

I’ll record what I’ve learnt on the subject of what I sell. What it actually is means little to anyone other than me, but what it does and how it helps, means everything to those who require it.

Life is not just for living

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.