Iconic quotes on india and indians

Priya (trainee) (384 Points)

01 August 2013  

Iconic Quotes on India and Indians

It is always inspirational to hear a good quote. Here are10 Iconic Quotes on India and Indians.

1. “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.”

-Mark Twain, American Author

2. “In religion, India is the only millionaire… the one land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.”
-Mark Twain, American Author

3. “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.”
-Mark Twain, American Author

4. “Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.”
-Mark Twain, American Author

5. “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, Scientist

6. “When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous”.”
-Albert Einstein, Scientist

7. “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.”
-Max Mueller, German scholar

8. “After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.”
-W. Heisenberg, German Physicist

9. “There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented zero.”
-Lancelot Hogben, English Mathematician

10. “India 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 US