C V Karthik Narayanan Quotes

Stars! It looks as if you're winking amused at the idiocy of the people on this earth. You have every reason to laugh. You saw the battle that happened a hundred years ago, and the blood that flooded the ground a long time afterwards. You wonder why there should be so much enmity among human beings, so much carnage and bloodshed. And why this should be known as heroism!"
"Even after a man has been dead a hundred years, people continue to hate him. This is an enemy's pallipadai where people gather to torture the living in name of the dead. Stars in the sky! Why wouldn't you laugh! Laugh! ~ Kalki

Historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water. ~ C. V. Raman

For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

An educated man should know everything about something and something about everything ~ C.V. Wedgwood

Enemies always attend each other's funerals. I guess it is a way of knowing they won... ~ M.C.V. Egan

All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a danger. In much the same way healthy nations are interested in their history, but a morbid preoccupation with past glories is a sign that something is wrong with the constitution of the State. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

Men wanted certainties, not more causes for doubt, and since the discoveries of science perplexed them with strange theories about the earth on which they walked and the bodies they inhabited, they turned with all the more zeal to the firm assurances of religion. Never ~ C. V. Wedgewood

Somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge. ~ C. V. Raman

Chase your wildflower dreams, because even the smallest buds can become something beautiful. ~ C.V. Sutherland

I'll come back for you," he said.
"I'll wait. ~ C.V. Wyk

When you are cornered by self-centred humans don't except any mercy from them. They cannot understand your pain and they try the best of them to destroy you in order to justify their EGO. All you can do is to pray for them to realise that ups and down are nature's policy and above all GOD is the only creator cum terminator. I pray for your betterment. Darkness is only for few hours, Sun will be back soon since he resembles truth. ~ Sreeraj.C.V

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

It was written in London under the advancing shadow of the Second World War, and it may be that the apprehensionsof those years can be felt vibrating from time to time in its pages. The historian,concerned as he is with the most vital of all studies, is often more subject than herealizes to the electric currents of contemporary mood. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

You can shit in one hand and wish in another and see which one gets full faster. Or ... you can just take my word for it. ~ C.V. Hunt

How many times have I turned away? How may voices have I chosen to ignore, my own not least of all? How far into darkness, into shadow, must one crawl not to see? And how can the blind walk out? - C.V. Dreesman, The Marksmith ~ C.V. Dreesman

For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman. ~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth. ~ C. V. Raman

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation. ~ C.V. Wedgwood

We must all envy a man in no haste ~ Neeraj Narayanan

How can a man give the shade to the others if he failed to find his own shadow? ~ Ajaykumar Narayanan

I want to save my people. That is the purpose of my life ~ Narayanan Krishnan

What is the ultimate purpose of life? It's to give. ~ Narayanan Krishnan

the secret of life is not to do what you like but to like what you do ~ Karthik Iyer

I saw a very old man, literally eating his own human waste out of hunger. I went to the nearby hotel and asked them what was available. They had idli, which I bought and gave to the old man. Believe me, I had never seen a person eating so fast, ever. As he ate the food, his eyes were filled with tears. Those were the tears of happiness. ~ Narayanan Krishnan

Homoeopathic treatment is my first choice not only for me but also for my family. Homoeopathy should be developed as full- fledged alternative system of medicine. More research and more development are essential to make Homoeopathy more popular and useful Homoeopath treats their patients in more compassionate way. Homoeopathy is second largest system of medicine being practiced in India. ~ K. R. Narayanan

From inside the heart of the others, the good people never expires, and the expired obviously not good. ~ Ajaykumar Narayanan