History of India Quotes

“If this Empire seems an evil thing to me, it is not because I hate the British, I hate only the Empire.” (Gandhi)”
― Captivating History, History of India: A Captivating Guide to Ancient India, Medieval Indian History, and Modern India Including Stories of the Maurya Empire, the British Raj, ... Gandhi, and More

“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)”
― Captivating History, History of India: A Captivating Guide to Ancient India, Medieval Indian History, and Modern India Including Stories of the Maurya Empire, the British Raj, ... Gandhi, and More

“Siddhartha’s original philosophies and teachings evolved over the centuries, eventually to be summarized into five main abstinences: killing living things, lying, intoxication, sexual misconduct, and stealing.”
― Captivating History, History of India: A Captivating Guide to Ancient India, Medieval Indian History, and Modern India Including Stories of the Maurya Empire, the British Raj, ... Gandhi, and More

“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, India: What it Can Teach Us)”
― Captivating History, History of India: A Captivating Guide to Ancient India, Medieval Indian History, and Modern India Including Stories of the Maurya Empire, the British Raj, ... Gandhi, and More

“Researchers believe that it was these Aryan people, and not the original Indus Valley inhabitants, who actually wrote the Vedic texts that would become Hinduism’s most important literature.”
― Captivating History, History of India: A Captivating Guide to Ancient India, Medieval Indian History, and Modern India Including Stories of the Maurya Empire, the British Raj, ... Gandhi, and More

“The Aryan people bonded with the Sarasvati to such an extent in many places that the two cultures became one, with beliefs and traditions merging together as people started to speak the Aryan language and the Aryans adopting the agricultural practices of the Sarasvati.”
― Captivating History, History of India: A Captivating Guide to Ancient India, Medieval Indian History, and Modern India Including Stories of the Maurya Empire, the British Raj, ... Gandhi, and More

“Who really knows, and who can swear, How creation came, when or where! Even gods came after creation’s day, Who really knows, who can truly say When and how did creation start? Did He do it? Or did He not? Only He, up there, knows, maybe; Or perhaps, not even He. — Rig Veda 10.129.1-7”
― Captivating History, History of India: A Captivating Guide to Ancient India, Medieval Indian History, and Modern India Including Stories of the Maurya Empire, the British Raj, ... Gandhi, and More

“Who really knows, and who can swear, How creation came, when or where! Even gods came after creation’s day, Who really knows, who can truly say When and how did creation start? Did He do it? Or did He not? Only He, up there, knows, maybe; Or perhaps, not even He.”
― Captivating History, History of India: A Captivating Guide to Ancient India, Medieval Indian History, and Modern India Including Stories of the Maurya Empire, the British Raj, ... Gandhi, and More

“India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.”
(Shashi Tharoor)”
― Captivating History, History of India: A Captivating Guide to Ancient India, Medieval Indian History, and Modern India Including Stories of the Maurya Empire, the British Raj, ... Gandhi, and More