Famous Quotes on India (by non-Indians)

1.Albert Einstein said: We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

2.Mark Twain said: India 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 only.

3.French scholar Romain Rolland said: 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.

4.Hu Shih (former Ambassador of China to USA) said: India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

5.Martha Smith: India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing

6.Pierre Pettigrew: India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.

7.Gary Ackerman: India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it

8.Gary Wright: India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West

9.Stafford Cripps: India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression. 

10.Minoru Yamasaki: However, India is a democracy and they deeply believe in democracy and we feel that it would not be good to overwhelm them with propaganda

11.Alexander Duff: “I will lay my bones by the Ganges that India might know there is one who cares.” 

12.Edward Gibbon: “My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.”