Opinion of great people about India

" It is already becoming clearer that a
chapter which has 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. "
- Dr. Arnold Toynbee ( British Historian :
1889-1975 )
India Quotes
"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 of India )
"India was China's teacher in religion and
imaginative literature, and the world's teacher
in trignometry, quandratic equations,
grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal
fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and
that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder,
Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also
old Aesop."
- Lin Yutang (1895-1976) author of The
Wisdom of China and India.
"In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is
no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages,
climes and nationalities and is the royal road
for the attainment of the Great Knowledge "
-Thoreau ( American Thinker )
" When I read the Bhagavat-Gita and reflect
about how God created this universe
everything else seems so superfluous.We owe
a lot to Indians who taught us how to count,
without which no worthwhile scientific
discovery could have been made"
-Albert Einstein, (1879-1955) physicist. In
1905 He published his theory of Relativity.
" 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 Creators hand. "
- George Bernard Shaw ( Famous British
Author )
" It is, indeed, a remarkable circumstance
that when Western civilization discovers
Relativity it applies it to the manufacture of
atom-bombs, whereas Indian civilization
applies it to the development of new states of
consciousness."
--Anonymous.
" From every sentence (of the Upanishads)
deep, original and sublime thoughts arise,
and the whole is pervaded by a high and holy
and earnest spirit...."In the whole world there
is no study so beneficial and so elevating as
that of the Upanishads. They are destined
sooner or later to become the faith of the
people."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German
philosopher and writer. He was one of the
greatest philosophers of the 19th century.
"India of the ages is not dead nor has she
spoken her last creative word; she lives and
has still something to do for herself and the
human peoples."
- Rishi Aurobindo
" When I read the Upanishads, I found a
profundity of world view that made my
Christianity seem like third grade."
- Huston Smith ( born in China to Methodist
missionaries, a philosopher, most eloquent
writer, world-famous religion scholar who
practices Hatha Yoga. Has taught at MIT and
is currently visiting professor at Univ. of
California at Berkley )
"India of the Vedas entertained a respect for
women amounting to worship; a fact which
we seem little to suspect in Europe when we
accuse the extreme East of having denied the
dignity of woman, and of having only made
her an instrument of pleasure and of passive
obedience.What! here is a civilization, which
you cannot deny to be older than your own,
which places the woman on a level with the
man and gives her an equal place in the
family and in society."