When Prof. Sheldon Pollock of University of Chicago was asked why one should study Sanskrit, he replied, " It is indicative of the apalling quality of the public discourse on Sanskrit in India today that you even ask this question".

Panini’s grammar is not only considered a masterpiece of close reasoning and artistic arrangement but remains till today, unsurpassed in its economy of words to describe linguistic features - Dr. Raja Ramanna

India, though it has, as we have seen, more than 500 spoken dialects, has only one sacred language and only sacred literature, accepted and revered by all... however diverse in race, dialect, rank and creed. That language is Sanskrit and that literature is Sanskrit literature... the only quarry whence the requisite materials may be obtained for improving the vernaculars of for expressing important religious and scientific ideas. - Monier Williams

While Middle-India dialects and other languages were local, Sanskrit was universal throughout India. It was fully known by a few people only, but everywhere; and it was superficially known by more numerous people mixing it with local language. - Jean Filliozat - Famous French Indologist

It is of the utmost value to a nation, a human group-soul, to preserve its language and to make of it a strong and living cultural instrument. A nation, race or people which loses its language, cannot live its whole life or its real life. - Maharishi Aurobindo

Sanskrit is the language of every man, to what ever race he may belong. - Dr. Shaidullah, Professor of Dhaka University, a great Sanskrit scholar

During discussion on the bill on the National language of India, he proposed that Sanskrit should be the National language and gave the following reason - "If you have to adopt a language, why should you not have the world's greatest language?" - Shri. Najiruddin Ahmed

Sanskrit was all the time the lingua-franca of the world of learning in India, and this position it has held all the time in India. - Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

Samskritam language, as has been universally recognised by those competent to form a judgement, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderful sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind. – Shri Aurobindo