Top 173 Hindus Quotes & Sayings

In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes at the expense of their gods and goddesses and that's what I did.

The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and the Ishwar of Hindus.

There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef eating. It divides Hindus into those who eat cow's flesh and those who do not.

Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves.

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet.

I think the Greeks first took astrology to India and took from the Hindus the science of astronomy and carried it back with them from Europe. Because in India you will find old altars made according to a certain geometrical plan, and certain things had to be done when the stars were in certain positions, therefore I think the Greeks gave the Hindus astrology, and the Hindus gave them astronomy.

We Hindus have a long-recognised tradition of being religious liberals by nature.

The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

I love all religions. ... If people become better Hindus, better Muslims, better Buddhists by our acts of love, then there is something else growing there." She upheld that there are many ways to God': "All is God - Buddists, Hindus, Christians, etc., all have access to the same God."

Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.

Secularism is intact because of Hindus.

Sadhvi Pragya is an answer to those who have maligned the image of Hindus by using the phrase 'Hindu terrorism.'

The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

Say it with pride we are Hindus

To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.

What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that much difference between Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists. We all worship God.

Too early religious advancement of the Hindus and that superfineness in everything which made them cling to higher alternatives, have reduced them to what they are. The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality.

Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.

When a road is made, we can't say only the Hindus will walk on it, if a road is being construction, both Hindus and Muslims will walk on it.

The Sufi saint Mazhar Jaan Jana of 18th century Delhi believed that the Quran condemns bowing before deities because in pre-Islamic idol worship stones were considered god. But Hindus pray to god through that idol, which is a reflection of god. In Vedas god is nirguna and nirankara, that is, he has no attributes and no shape, that is the real belief of Hindus. As Muslims visit graves, so Hindus worship idols.

The population of Hindus is 100 crore. So obviously India is a Hindu Rashtra.

Hindus believe Buddha to be an Avatara.

The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences.

I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.

One of the greatest attributes most Hindus have is acceptance.

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

We maintain and hold that Muslims and Hindus are two major nations by any definition or test of a nation.

If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction.

Mother Teresa was part of a conspiracy to convert Hindus to Christianity.

The Asiatics and the Africans, such as the Russians, the Arabs, the Hindus, are increasing with marked rapidity. Never have the European races been in such great peril as today.

Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not.

Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much.

I am a proud Christian who has been greatly tutored by Hindus and Buddhists and Sufis and others, and I stand and I speak from that place.

The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.

We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.

In these days of intellectual awakening and steadily asserting public opinion, the holy places of the Hindus, their condition, and method of work have not escaped tile keen eye of criticism; and this city, being the holy of holies to all Hindus, has not failed to attract its full share of censure.

I'm not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I'm not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.

I appeal to Muslims and Hindus, beware of the election plans of the BJP.

There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.

Hindus and Muslims used to be like two neighbors, who had some issues but who also loved each other.

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

The Hindus say, 'Nada brahma,' one translation of which is, 'The world is sound.' And in a way, that's true, because everything is vibrating.

Our First Amendment should preserve the right of Hindus and Muslims to practice their faith.

All I want to achieve is to present the unreported history of Kashmiri Hindus.

Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault.

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

The concept of zero is attributed to the Hindus. The Hindus were also the first to use zero in the way it is used today.

The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th century). The Indian tables give the same annual variation of the moon as the discovered by Tycho Brahe - a variation unknown to the school of Alexandria and also to the Arabs who followed the calculations of the school ... The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the oldest and that from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge.

I am almost inclined to say that India will get Dominion Responsible Government the day the Hindus and Muslims are united.

We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.

In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the latter they are nil.