--- title: "16 Way Quotes By Amartya Sen" description: "16 Way quotes by Amartya Sen. Plus more from Amartya Sen and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e5/amartya-sen-2518_clarity_human-ordeals-thrive-on-ignorance-to-und_2174233.png" --- > [Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/human-ordeals-thrive-on-ignorance-to-understand-a-problem-with/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e5/amartya-sen-2518_clarity_human-ordeals-thrive-on-ignorance-to-und_2174233.png) > [In all kinds of ways there are different freedoms that effect our lives and you can assess what our lives are like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/in-all-kinds-of-ways-there-are-different-freedoms-that-effect-our/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a13/amartya-sen-2518_all-kinds_in-all-kinds-of-ways-there-are-different_2473805.png) > [People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/people-s-identities-as-indians-as-asians-or-as-members-of-the-human/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c8/amartya-sen-2518_hinduism_people-s-identities-as-indians-as-asians_1684924.png) > [Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/opportunity-could-be-defined-in-so-many-ways-there-s-one-way-of/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/330/amartya-sen-2518_astronaut_opportunity-could-be-defined-in-so-many_766512.jpg) > [Japan became an imperialist country in many ways, but that was much later, after it had already made big progress. I don’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/japan-became-an-imperialist-country-in-many-ways-but-that-was-much/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f39/amartya-sen-2518_bigs_japan-became-an-imperialist-country-in-m_923127.jpg) > [When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/when-the-nobel-award-came-my-way-it-also-gave-me-an-opportunity-to-do/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c23/amartya-sen-2518_bangladesh_when-the-nobel-award-came-my-way-it-also_3177886.png) > [The opportunities, income, schools facilities, the basic income support that the government provides or any of these things .. public transport arrangements…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/the-opportunities-income-schools-facilities-the-basic-income-support/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/682/amartya-sen-2518_arrangements_the-opportunities-income-schools-facilit_1173149.jpg) > [South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy in the course of 25, 30…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/south-korea-from-a-country-that-had-relatively-little-primary/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72f/amartya-sen-2518_asia_south-korea-from-a-country-that-had-rela_2994212.jpg) > [ Women's education has a much greater impact \[on\], for example, fertility. Men's education, if our studies are correct, ha\[s\] almost no impact… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/women-s-education-has-a-much-greater-impact-on-for-example-fertility/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/597/amartya-sen-2518_children_women-s-education-has-a-much-greater-imp_1521281.png) > [The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/the-higher-education-has-always-appealed-to-the-south-asian-social/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af1/amartya-sen-2518_areas_the-higher-education-has-always-appealed_2649252.jpg) > [The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/the-identity-of-just-one-thing-the-clash-of-civilization-view-that/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/568/amartya-sen-2518_all-kinds_the-identity-of-just-one-thing-the-clash_2429543.png) > [Women had always been thought of as looking after the family when men go and earn an income and they're the bread…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/women-had-always-been-thought-of-as-looking-after-the-family-when-men/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf2/amartya-sen-2518_another-woman_women-had-always-been-thought-of-as-look_605962.png) > [South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/south-korea-at-the-end-of-the-second-world-war-had-a-very-low-level/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56a/amartya-sen-2518_ancient_south-korea-at-the-end-of-the-second-wor_1059450.jpg) > [Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/any-classification-according-to-a-singular-identity-polarizes-people/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d70/amartya-sen-2518_brotherhood_any-classification-according-to-a-singul_2357910.jpg) > [Education makes us the human beings we are. It has major impacts on economic development, on social equity, gender equity. In all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/education-makes-us-the-human-beings-we-are-it-has-major-impacts-on/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a39/amartya-sen-2518_all-kinds_education-makes-us-the-human-beings-we-a_3202287.jpg) > [In absolutely every way, our lives are transformed by education and basic education in particular. So I would have thought that in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/in-absolutely-every-way-our-lives-are-transformed-by-education-and/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d53/amartya-sen-2518_basic-education_in-absolutely-every-way-our-lives-are-tr_692103.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## More by Amartya Sen > [Capability is just a concept of what is it we're looking at. Now how far we can go along that and what new capabilities…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/capability-is-just-a-concept-of-what-is-it-we-re-looking-at-now-how/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/human-life-consists-of-doing-certain-things-to-take-part-in-the-life/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/where-the-mind-is-without-fear-and-the-head-is-held-high-where/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [Violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people, championed by proficient artisans of terror.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/violence-is-fomented-by-the-imposition-of-singular-and-belligerent/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/i-think-the-whole-progress-over-the-last-two-or-three-millennia-has/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/no-famine-has-ever-taken-place-in-the-history-of-the-world-in-a/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/to-say-that-certainly-america-was-very-lucky-to-get-a-large-amount-of/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/the-lack-of-economic-freedom-could-be-a-very-major-reason-for-loss-of/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/we-need-to-ask-the-moral-questions-do-i-have-a-right-to-be-rich-and/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [“He wrote extensively on how schools should be made more attractive to boys and girls and thus more productive. His own co-educational school at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/he-wrote-extensively-on-how-schools-should-be-made-more-attractive-to/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [One has to be realistic. One’s concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/one-has-to-be-realistic-one-s-concern-for-equity-and-justice-in-the/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/while-i-am-interested-both-in-economics-and-in-philosophy-the-union/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/i-was-born-in-a-university-campus-and-seem-to-have-lived-all-my-life/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [If jobs are important, education is important.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/if-jobs-are-important-education-is-important/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) > [Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/thailand-s-economic-development-was-driven-by-educational-expansion/) [Amartya Sen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amartya-sen/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/amartya-sen/#itemlist", "name": "16 Way Quotes By Amartya Sen", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. 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They were learning to some extent from the Japanese experience too. So I think, in a sense, the East Asians were following a path, which all other countries including South Asia could follow but chose not too.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Amartya Sen" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amartya-sen/south-korea-from-a-country-that-had-relatively-little-primary/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72f/amartya-sen-2518_asia_south-korea-from-a-country-that-had-rela_2994212.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72f/amartya-sen-2518_asia_south-korea-from-a-country-that-had-rela_2994212.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72f/amartya-sen-2518_asia_south-korea-from-a-country-that-had-rela_2994212.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy…” — Amartya Sen", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Women's education has a much greater impact [on], for example, fertility. 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