India is a vast country with an enormous population and it’s a source of great wisdom too. Many great thinkers have been influenced by wisdom from India.
So today let’s explore some wisdom from India in the form of proverbs, sayings and quotes.
I have the greatest respect for India, its traditions and culture and I’ve learned much from Indian philosophy and thinking.
So take a few moments and reflect on some of the wisdom from one of the greatest civilisations on this planet we call Earth.
Wisdom from India (1-20):
- If you can, you must. ~Bikram Choudhury
- There is no hand to catch time. ~Indian Proverb
- Alertness and courage are life’s shields. ~Indian Wisdom
- When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. ~Ramakrishna
- Where the needle goes, the thread follows. ~Indian Proverb
- You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~Indira Gandhi
- What was hard to bear is sweet to remember. ~Indian Wisdom
- Great anger is more destructive than the sword. ~Indian Wisdom
- Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. ~Indian Wisdom
- Don’t bargain for fish that are still in the water. ~Indian Wisdom
- Pull someone by the ears and his head will follow. ~Indian Proverb
- Walking slowly, even the donkey will reach Lhasa. ~Indian Proverb
- Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success. ~Virat Kohli
- The eyes do not see what the mind does not want. ~Indian Wisdom
- The fruit of your own hard work is the sweetest. ~Deepika Padukone
- I have lanced many boils, but none pained like my own. ~Indian Proverb
- You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~Mahatma Gandhi
- Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble. ~Shah Rukh Khan
- Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains. ~Ramana Maharshi
- Cultivation of the mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. ~BR Ambedkar
Wisdom from India (21-33):
- They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing. ~Indian Proverb
- I had no shoes and complained until I saw a man who had no feet. ~Indian Wisdom
- Certain things capture the eye but pursue only those that capture the heart. ~Indian Wisdom
- What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. ~Salman Rushdie
- Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration. ~Azim Premji
- You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian. ~Amit Kalantri
- Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ~Swami Sivananda
- You sometimes forget the harm that was done to you, but never the harm you have done to others. ~Indian Wisdom
- There’s nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your former self. ~Indian Wisdom
- Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you. ~Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. ~Swami Vivekananda
- A man is born alone and dies alone, and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone, and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode. ~Chanakya
- 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
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