2025-2021 | 2020-2016 | 2015-2011
UPSC Past Papers 2025-2021
2025
- Truth knows no color.
- The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Thought finds a world and creates one also.
- Best lessons are learnt through bitter experiences.
- Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
- The years teach much which the days never know.
- It is best to see life as a journey, not as a destination.
- Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.
2024
- Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.
- The empires of the future will be the empires of the mind.
- There is no path to happiness; Happiness is the path.
- The doubter is a true man of science.
- Social media is triggering ‘Fear of Missing Out’ amongst the youth, precipitating depression and loneliness.
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but to test the character, give him power.
- All ideas having large consequences are always simple.
- The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
2023
- Thinking is like a game; it does not begin unless there is an opposite team.
- Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic.
- Not all who wander are lost.
- Inspiration for creativity springs from the effort to look for the magical in the mundane.
- Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands — two equally harmful disciplines.
- Mathematics is the Music of Reason.
- A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
- Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
2022
- A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.
- Just because you have a choice, it does not mean that any of them has to be right.
- The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- You cannot step twice in the same river.
- A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ship is for.
- Forests are the best case studies for economic excellence.
- Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world
- History is a series of victories won by the scientific man over the romantic man
2021
- Your perception of me is a reflection of you; my reaction to you is an awareness of me.
- Philosophy of wantlessness is Utopian, while materialism is a chimera.
- The real is rational and the rational is real.
- Hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
- History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.
- What is research, but a blind date with knowledge!
- There are better practices to “best practices”.
- The process of self-discovery has now been technologically outsourced.