India quotes
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without
which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.
- Albert EinsteinIndia 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.
- Mark Twain"Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern
times, wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race
to another...But mark you, my friends, it has been always with
the blast of war trumpets and the march of embattled cohorts.
Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word of
power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of
orphans, by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have
taught; but India for thousands of years peacefully existed. Here
activity prevailed when even Greece did not exist... Even earlier,
when history has no record, and tradition dares not peer into the
gloom of that intense past, even from until now, ideas after ideas
have marched out from her, but every word has been spoken with
a blessing behind it and peace before it. We, of all nations of the
world, have never been a conquering race, and that blessing is on
our head, and therefore we live...."
- Swami Vivekananda, Indian Philosopher."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."
- Sylvia LeviIf 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.
- French scholar Romain RollandIndia conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries
without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.
- Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA