31 Quotes about India

January 26, 2021

31 Quotes about India

· “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 was known to the seers who founded the Vedas.”

— Wheeler Wilcox (American poet)

· “To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

· “India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.” — Mark Twain

· “We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.” — Albert Einstein

· “There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.” — Max Müller

· “Time spent in India has an extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.” — Tahir Shah

· “India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.” — Erin Reese

· “I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.” — J.R.D. Tata

· “There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you’re going to have – that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go back home.” — Erin Reese

· “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.” — Keith Bellows

· “India has two million gods and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.” — Mark Twain

· “You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.” — Amit Kalantri

· “It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organization that it has developed, that has enabled it to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.” — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

· “Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.” — Simon Dring

· “In India, you’re taught that there are certain qualities that make you a divine human being.” — Deepak Chopra

· “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.” — Romain Rolland

· “To me, India’s always represented ‘everything’; it represents ‘all.’ Everything is here. You can stay here forever, and you’ll never feel like you’ve missed out on life.” — Chris Martin

· “In India I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it. Inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything but possessed by nothing.” — Apollonius Tyanaeus (Greek Thinker and Traveler)

· “India is not a country, but a home.” — Khalid Masood

· “India is the guru of the nations, the physician of human soul in its profounder maladies; she is destined once more to new mould the life of the world and restore the peace of the human spirit.” — Sri Aurobindo

· “India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.” — Will Durant

· “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.” — P. Johnstone

· “I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, -but they were not happy.” — Goldie Hawn

· “The World is my home and India is my living room. I’m independent in my living room to explore, hoping someday I will also be able to explore my own home.” — Bikram Mahata

· “Many of the advances in the sciences that we consider today to have been made in Europe were in fact made in India centuries ago.” — Grant Duff (British Historian)

· “The designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi.” — Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

· “The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creator’s hand.” — George Bernard Shaw (Irish playwright)

· “India is probably the best country in the world, both scenic and peaceful; it truly is god’s country.” — Kobe Bryant

· “India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.” — Hu Shih(Chinese ambassador to the US)

· “Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself.” — Reymond Page

· “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.” — Will Durant