30 famous quotes about India and Hinduism

India is a vast and diverse country that is home to over a billion people and boasts a rich cultural history. Find out what important figures from the past and present have said about India.

Will Durant, American historian “India was the home of our race and Sanskrit the mother of European languages: it 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 cradle of human language, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great-grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and instructive materials in human history is appreciated only in India. "
Albert Einstein, scientist "We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us to count, without whom no scientific discovery could have been made".
Max Mueller, German scholar
"If they asked me under which sky the human mind has developed more fully some of its most chosen gifts, has reflected more deeply on the major problems of life and has found solutions, I should indicate India".

Romain Rolland, French scholar "If there is a place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home since the first days when man began the dream of existence, it is India" .
Henry David Thoreau, American thinker and author “Every time I read any part of the Vedas, I felt that a supernatural and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbing and nationalities and is the real road to achieving Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel I am under the glazed skies 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, coherent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another era and climate had pondered and therefore disposed of the questions they exercise us “.
Hu Shih, a former Chinese ambassador to the United States
"India has conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across its border."
Keith Bellows, National Geographic Society “There are some parts of the world that, once visited, enter your heart and will not go. For me, India is such a place. When I visited for the first time, I was amazed by the richness of the earth, for its lush beauty and exotic architecture, for its ability to overload the senses with the pure and concentrated intensity of its colors, smells, flavors and sounds ... I had seen the world in black and 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 surprised at India. Nowhere on Earth does humanity present itself in such a dizzying and creative outbreak of cultures and religions, races and languages. Enriched by successive waves of migration and looters from distant lands, each of them left an indelible mark that was absorbed by the Indian lifestyle. Every aspect of the country is presented on a massive, exaggerated scale, worthy compared to only the superlative mountains that overlook it. It is this strain that provides a stunning set for experiences that are uniquely Indian. Perhaps the only thing more difficult than being indifferent to India would be to describe or fully understand it. Perhaps there are very few nations in the world with the enormous variety that India has to offer. Modern India represents the world's largest democracy with a seamless image of unity in diversity unprecedented anywhere else. "

Mark Twain “As far as I can judge, nothing has been left aside, neither by man nor by nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits during its tours. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing has been overlooked. "
Will Durant "India will teach us tolerance and sweetness of the mature mind, understanding of the spirit and a unifying and pacifying love for all human beings."
William James, American author “Dai Veda, we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, construction of houses in which mechanized art is included. They are the 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 such exciting, exciting and inspiring book in the world as the Upanishads."
British historian Dr. Arnold Toynbee
“It is already becoming clear that a chapter that had a western beginning will have to have an Indian end if it does not end with the self-destruction of the human race. At this extremely dangerous time in history, the only way of salvation for humanity is the Indian way. "

Sir William Jones, British Orientalist "The Sanskrit language, whatever its antiquity, has a wonderful structure, more perfect than Greek, more abundant than Latin and more exquisitely refined than both."
P. Johnstone “Gravitation was known to Hindus (Indians) before Newton was born. The blood circulation system 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. The Vedas contain an account of the size of the Earth, Sun, Moon, Planets and Galaxies. "
Sylvia Levi
“She (India) has left indelible imprints on a quarter of the human race over a long succession of centuries. It has the right to claim ... its place among the great nations that summarize and symbolize the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the frozen regions of Siberia to the islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated its beliefs, its stories and its civilization! "

Schopenhauer, in "Works VI" "The Vedas are the most rewarding and highest book possible in the world."
Mark Twain “India has two million gods and loves them all. In religion all the other countries are poor, India is the only millionaire. "
Colonel James Todd “Where can we look for essays like those whose philosophical systems 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 still arouses wonder in Europe? as well as the architects and sculptors whose works claim our admiration, and the musicians who could swing the mind from joy to sadness, from tears to smiles with changing modalities and varied intonation? "
Lancelot Hogben in "Mathematics for the Millions" "There was no more revolutionary contribution than what the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO."
Wheeler Wilcox
“India - The land of the Vedas, the extraordinary works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life but also facts that science has proven to be true. Electricity, radio, electronics, airship were all known to the visionaries 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."
British surgeon Sir W. Hunter “The intervention of the ancient Indian doctors was bold and skillful. A special branch of surgery has been devoted to rhinoplasty or operations to improve deformed ears, nose and form new ones, which European surgeons have now borrowed. "
Sir John Woodroffe "An examination of the Indian Vedic doctrines shows that it is in tune with the most advanced scientific and philosophical thought of the West."
BG Rele in "The Vedic Gods" "Our current knowledge of the nervous system fits so accurately to the internal description of the human body given in the Vedas (5000 years ago). So the question arises whether the Vedas are truly religious books or books on nervous system anatomy and medicine. ”
Adolf Seilachar and PK Bose, scientists
"A billion-year-old fossil shows that life began in India: AFP Washington reports in Science Magazine that the German scientist Adolf Seilachar and the Indian scientist PK Bose have found fossils in Churhat, a city in Madhya Pradesh, India which has 1,1 billion years and brought back the evolutionary clock of over 500 million years. "
Will Durant
"It is true that also through the Himalayan barrier India has sent gifts such as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and especially numbers and decimal systems to the West."