These Hindus quotes will inspire you. Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or way of life. It is the world’s third-largest religion, with over 1.2 billion followers, or 15–16% of the global population, known as Hindus.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Hindus quotes, Hindus sayings, and Hindus proverbs.
Best Hindus Quotes
- “The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
- “Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“Be more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, always offering respect onto others and never expecting any in return” ~ Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
- “Let what comes come, let what goes go.” ~ Ramana Maharshi
- “If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?” ~ Chuck Palahniuk
- “The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
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“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
- “In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.” ~ B. R. Ambedkar
- “The mind is susceptible to suggestions. It learns whatever you teach it.” ~ Swami Brahmananda
- “Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be experienced. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are sins which exceed his love.” ~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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“One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.” ~ Ramakrishna
- “Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.” ~ Mark Twain
- “One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.” ~ Mother Meera
- “We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.” ~ Bill Watterson
- “Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
- “I am a Hindu because it is Hinduism which makes the world worth living. I am a Hindu hence I Love not only human beings, but all living beings.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “In Hinduism, Shiva the Cosmic Dancer, is perhaps the most perfect personification of the dynamic universe. Through his dance, Shiva sustains the manifold phenomena in the world, unifying all things by immersing them in his rhythm and making them participate in the dance – a magnificent image of the dynamic unity of the Universe.” ~ Fritjof Capra
- “Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.” ~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
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“If 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.” ~ Romain Rolland
- “But the self-controlled man, moving among objects, with his senses under restraint, and free from both attraction and repulsion, attains peace.” ~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
- “India – The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.” ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox , Hindus quotes about life
- “Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries. We are dazzled by the material progress that Western science has made. Ancient India has survived because Hinduism was not developed along material but spiritual lines.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Hinduism is the mother of all religions” ~ Swami Vivekananda
- “India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe’s languages: she 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.” ~ Will Durant
- “The greatest formula that can liberate, cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name, the Name of Rama.” ~ Sathya Sai Baba
- “After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.” ~ Werner Heisenberg
- “The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.” ~ Aldous Huxley
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“I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “I am easily satisfied with the very best.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “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 Muller
- “India is the meeting-place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.” ~ Sri Aurobindo
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“That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.” ~ Sri Aurobindo
- “Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. “Truth is God” and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “I recall having read, at the brothers’ instance, Madame Blavatsky’s Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “I recall having read, at the brothers’ instance, Madame Blavatsky’s Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.” ~ Mark Twain
- “People’s identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way – quite suddenly – to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.” ~ Amartya Sen
- “I think that there are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all the species: Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as countless smaller infections. Is there a conflict between science and religion here? There most certainly is.” ~ Daniel Dennett
- “The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.” ~ Radhanath Swami
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“It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.” ~ Will Durant
- “English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “As an individual, I think you have to find your own path. I like the simplicity and purity of Hinduism and many elements of Buddhism. These are all means of accessing spiritual energy.” ~ Dave Davies
- “A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions.” ~ Carl Sagan
- “From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
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“I’m definitely a practicing Hindu.” ~ Julia Roberts
- “Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down. They are eternal and timeless.” ~ Sathya Sai Baba
- “Tears are words the heart can’t express” ~ Gerard Way
- “It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play. And they look upon the whole manifestation of all the universes as a play, as a sport, as a kind of dance — lila perhaps being somewhat related to our word lilt” ~ Alan Watts
- “The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, no doubt by accident, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long, longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.” ~ Carl Sagan
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“I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian.” ~ Raimon Panikkar
- “Since I learned the truth in Mecca, my dearest friends have come to include all kinds – some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists! I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists – some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!” ~ Malcolm X
- “If I look at the definition of Hinduism, the Supreme Court of India has given a beautiful definition; it says that Hinduism is not a religion, it is actually a way of life.” ~ Narendra Modi
- “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
- “In Hinduism, we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
