I maintain that education is a prime instrument of national purpose and that the quality of its education is inseparably involved in the quality of t… - Zakir Husain

Had your mother not been so well-organized, so simple, so virtuous and so resourceful, I would not have been what I am today.

Feeble beliefs must be replaced by healthier habits and irrelevant institutions by progressive institutions. Our will should get guidance not form the twilight of the intellect but from the broad daylight of true beliefs.

I have gained a lot from my German teachers and philosophers and I acknowledge this debt whole heartedly but it does not mean that others have not contributed to the growth of my ideas. I have been influenced in much the same way by thoughts of Indian, Swiss, English and American teachers and educational philosophers. I always treat truth and discretion as my lost property and pick it up wherever I find it.