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30 Famous Quotations about India and Hinduism
by Subhamoy Das
September 02, 2018
India is a vast, diverse country that is home to over a billion people
and boasts a rich cultural history. Learn what notable figures from the
past and present have said about India.
Will Durant, American historian
"India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of
Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother,
through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the
Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the
village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in
many ways the mother of us all."
Mark Twain, American author
"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech,
the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the
great-grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive
materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only."
Albert Einstein, scientist
"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which
no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."
Max Mueller, German scholar
"If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed
some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest
problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India."
Romain Rolland, French scholar
"If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of
living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began
the dream of existence, it is India."
Henry David Thoreau, American Thinker & Author
"Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some
unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the
Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and
nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great
Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens
of a summer night."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Author
"In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or
unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old
intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus
disposed of the questions that exercise us."
Hu Shih, former Chinese Ambassador to USA
"India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without
ever having to send a single soldier across her border."
Keith Bellows, National Geographic Society
"There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your
heart and won't go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited,
I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic
architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure,
concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds... I
had been seeing the world in black & white and, when brought
face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant
technicolor."
'A Rough Guide to India'
"It is impossible not to be astonished by India. Nowhere on Earth does
humanity present itself in such a dizzying, creative burst of cultures
and religions, races and tongues. Enriched by successive waves of
migration and marauders from distant lands, every one of them left an
indelible imprint which was absorbed into the Indian way of life. Every
aspect of the country presents itself on a massive, exaggerated scale,
worthy in comparison only to the superlative mountains that overshadow
it. It is this variety which provides a breathtaking ensemble for
experiences that is uniquely Indian. Perhaps the only thing more
difficult than to be indifferent to India would be to describe or
understand India completely. There are perhaps very few nations in the
world with the enormous variety that India has to offer. Modern day
India represents the largest democracy in the world with a seamless
picture of unity in diversity unparalleled anywhere else."
Mark Twain
"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by
man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun
visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing
overlooked."
Will Durant
"India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind,
understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings."
William James, American Author
"From the Vedas, we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music,
house building under which mechanized art is included. They are
encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science,
ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology."
Max Muller in 'Sacred Books of the East'
"There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and
inspiring as the Upanishads."
Dr. Arnold Toynbee, British Historian
"It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western
beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in the
self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment
in history, the only way of salvation for mankind is the Indian way."
Sir William Jones, British Orientalist
"The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of wonderful
structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and
more exquisitely refined than either."
P. Johnstone
"Gravitation was known to the Hindus (Indians) before the birth of
Newton. The system of blood circulation was discovered by them centuries
before Harvey was heard of."
Emmelin Plunret in 'Calendars and Constellations'
"They were very advanced Hindu astronomers in 6000 BC. Vedas contain an
account of the dimension of Earth, Sun, Moon, Planets, and Galaxies."
Sylvia Levi
"She (India) has left indelible imprints on one-fourth of the human race
in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to
reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and
symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from
the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has
propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization!"
Schopenhauer, in 'Works VI'
"Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be
possible in the world."
Mark Twain
"India has two million gods and worships them all. In religion all other
countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire."
Colonel James Todd
"Where can we look for sages like those whose systems of philosophy were
prototypes of those of Greece: to whose works Plato, Thales, and
Pythagoras were disciples? Where do I find astronomers whose knowledge
of planetary systems yet excites wonder in Europe as well as the
architects and sculptors whose works claim our admiration, and the
musicians who could make the mind oscillate from joy to sorrow, from
tears to smile with the change of modes and varied intonation?"
Lancelot Hogben in 'Mathematics for the Millions'
"There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which
the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO."
Wheeler Wilcox
"India—The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only
religious ideas for a perfect life but also facts which science has
proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known
to the seers who founded the Vedas."
W. Heisenberg, German Physicist
"After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of
Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense."
Sir W. Hunter, British Surgeon
"The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skillful. A
special branch of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations for
improving deformed ears, noses and forming new ones, which European
surgeons have now borrowed."
Sir John Woodroffe
"An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with
the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West."
B.G. Rele in 'The Vedic Gods'
"Our present knowledge of the nervous system fits in so accurately with
the internal description of the human body given in the Vedas (5000
years ago). Then the question arises whether the Vedas are really
religious books or books on anatomy of the nervous system and medicine."
Adolf Seilachar & P.K. Bose, scientists
"One Billion-Year-Old fossil prove life began in India: AFP Washington
reports in Science Magazine that German Scientist Adolf Seilachar and
Indian Scientist P.K. Bose have unearthed fossil in Churhat a town in
Madhya Pradesh, India which is 1.1 billion years old and has rolled back
the evolutionary clock by more than 500 million years."
Will Durant
"It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the
west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism
and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system."
30 Famous Quotations about India and Hinduism
by Subhamoy Das
September 02, 2018
India is a vast, diverse country that is home to over a billion people
and boasts a rich cultural history. Learn what notable figures from the
past and present have said about India.
Will Durant, American historian
"India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of
Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother,
through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the
Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the
village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in
many ways the mother of us all."
Mark Twain, American author
"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech,
the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the
great-grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive
materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only."
Albert Einstein, scientist
"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which
no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."
Max Mueller, German scholar
"If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed
some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest
problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India."
Romain Rolland, French scholar
"If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of
living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began
the dream of existence, it is India."
Henry David Thoreau, American Thinker & Author
"Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some
unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the
Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and
nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great
Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens
of a summer night."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Author
"In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or
unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old
intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus
disposed of the questions that exercise us."
Hu Shih, former Chinese Ambassador to USA
"India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without
ever having to send a single soldier across her border."
Keith Bellows, National Geographic Society
"There are some parts of the world that, once visited, get into your
heart and won't go. For me, India is such a place. When I first visited,
I was stunned by the richness of the land, by its lush beauty and exotic
architecture, by its ability to overload the senses with the pure,
concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, tastes, and sounds... I
had been seeing the world in black & white and, when brought
face-to-face with India, experienced everything re-rendered in brilliant
technicolor."
'A Rough Guide to India'
"It is impossible not to be astonished by India. Nowhere on Earth does
humanity present itself in such a dizzying, creative burst of cultures
and religions, races and tongues. Enriched by successive waves of
migration and marauders from distant lands, every one of them left an
indelible imprint which was absorbed into the Indian way of life. Every
aspect of the country presents itself on a massive, exaggerated scale,
worthy in comparison only to the superlative mountains that overshadow
it. It is this variety which provides a breathtaking ensemble for
experiences that is uniquely Indian. Perhaps the only thing more
difficult than to be indifferent to India would be to describe or
understand India completely. There are perhaps very few nations in the
world with the enormous variety that India has to offer. Modern day
India represents the largest democracy in the world with a seamless
picture of unity in diversity unparalleled anywhere else."
Mark Twain
"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by
man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun
visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing
overlooked."
Will Durant
"India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind,
understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings."
William James, American Author
"From the Vedas, we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music,
house building under which mechanized art is included. They are
encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science,
ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology."
Max Muller in 'Sacred Books of the East'
"There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and
inspiring as the Upanishads."
Dr. Arnold Toynbee, British Historian
"It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western
beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not to end in the
self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment
in history, the only way of salvation for mankind is the Indian way."
Sir William Jones, British Orientalist
"The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of wonderful
structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and
more exquisitely refined than either."
P. Johnstone
"Gravitation was known to the Hindus (Indians) before the birth of
Newton. The system of blood circulation was discovered by them centuries
before Harvey was heard of."
Emmelin Plunret in 'Calendars and Constellations'
"They were very advanced Hindu astronomers in 6000 BC. Vedas contain an
account of the dimension of Earth, Sun, Moon, Planets, and Galaxies."
Sylvia Levi
"She (India) has left indelible imprints on one-fourth of the human race
in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to
reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and
symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from
the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has
propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization!"
Schopenhauer, in 'Works VI'
"Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be
possible in the world."
Mark Twain
"India has two million gods and worships them all. In religion all other
countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire."
Colonel James Todd
"Where can we look for sages like those whose systems of philosophy were
prototypes of those of Greece: to whose works Plato, Thales, and
Pythagoras were disciples? Where do I find astronomers whose knowledge
of planetary systems yet excites wonder in Europe as well as the
architects and sculptors whose works claim our admiration, and the
musicians who could make the mind oscillate from joy to sorrow, from
tears to smile with the change of modes and varied intonation?"
Lancelot Hogben in 'Mathematics for the Millions'
"There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which
the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO."
Wheeler Wilcox
"India—The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only
religious ideas for a perfect life but also facts which science has
proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known
to the seers who founded the Vedas."
W. Heisenberg, German Physicist
"After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of
Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense."
Sir W. Hunter, British Surgeon
"The surgery of the ancient Indian physicians was bold and skillful. A
special branch of surgery was dedicated to rhinoplasty or operations for
improving deformed ears, noses and forming new ones, which European
surgeons have now borrowed."
Sir John Woodroffe
"An examination of Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with
the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West."
B.G. Rele in 'The Vedic Gods'
"Our present knowledge of the nervous system fits in so accurately with
the internal description of the human body given in the Vedas (5000
years ago). Then the question arises whether the Vedas are really
religious books or books on anatomy of the nervous system and medicine."
Adolf Seilachar & P.K. Bose, scientists
"One Billion-Year-Old fossil prove life began in India: AFP Washington
reports in Science Magazine that German Scientist Adolf Seilachar and
Indian Scientist P.K. Bose have unearthed fossil in Churhat a town in
Madhya Pradesh, India which is 1.1 billion years old and has rolled back
the evolutionary clock by more than 500 million years."
Will Durant
"It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the
west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism
and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system."