As soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right, and all others are wrong,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that a leader is not made in one life. He has to be born for it. For the difficulty… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable". — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
