Curiosity   Most of the world’s leaders of philosophy and thought attribute their achievement to their sense of curiosity which is defined as a deep desire to seek knowledge and to find the truth about life and matter, why and how of what goes about in the world. Curiosity is of two kinds—idle and real. The latter category is responsible for the world’s major achievements in the different fields. Idle curiosity...

Ambition  Essay No. 01 Happy is the land that has no history, for history is a record of the battles and wars waged by kings and emperors to gratify their vaulting ambitions. In their lust for more lands and riches, they spread havoc and devastation, here, there, and everywhere. There is hardly a crime against humanity which they did not commit, hardly a sin that did not stain their conscience. Their...

History Never Repeats Itself   History has its own course; times have their own tides, periods have their own currents and epochs have their own irresistibility’s. History has its unbroken and unbreakable march; it follows its course. It leaves behind what outgrows its utility and it forges new traits as the circumstances necessitate. These can be termed as implicit but irresistible movements of history. Although there is a unity in history,...

Shyness   According to the dictionary meaning, a person is said to be shy when he is disposed to avoid any person or a thing. A shy person is easily frightened, is hesitant in committing himself, is marked by sensitive diffidence. A shy person is bashful, coy and exhibits a timid reserve, always shirking from familiarity or contact with others. A shy person’s diffidence stresses a distrust of one’s own ability...

“The Old Order Changed, Yielding Place To New” Change in all things is sweet, says a Greek proverb; and there is nothing permanent except change, says another. Change is the law of nature. The crust of the earth, the surface of the sea, the face of the sky are all undergoing daily and hourly changes. The rotation of the earth on its axis, the revolution of the earth resulting in change...

“Man is Born Free, But He is Everywhere in Chains”   It was the great philosopher Rousseau who uttered this wonderful sentence and which now has become synonymous with pitiable condition of man on earth where he is born; he is born of free and cheerful spirit, but the spirit and cheerfulness undergoes a miraculous metamorphosis in the presence of obtaining social structure which is almost created on the freedom of...

“For Forms of Government Let Fools Contest, Whatever is Best Administered is The Best”   The nineteenth century was the age of revolution. The twentieth century is the age of political experimentation. The world has been convulsed by colossal political changes that have visited the different nations of the world. There is such an incompatibility in the political ideologies that the best brains of the world are puzzled. If the question...

Success in Life—What it Depends on   Behind all human effort there lies a hope for success. Man tries plans and labours so long as there is present in his mind, the faintest hope of succeeding in his attempt. This hope generates and directs human energy. When the hope ends, man faints and sinks. So keen is his desire for success that he takes it as the only thing worth having...