Sri Lanka Quotes
46 quotes by 25 authors
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The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
— Sri Aurobindo
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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…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.
— Sri Aurobindo
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To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
— Sri Aurobindo
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty…
— Sri Aurobindo
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight,…
— Sri Aurobindo
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She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the…
— James Buchan
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If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily…
— Sri Chinmoy
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By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.
— Sri Chinmoy
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Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.
— Sri Chinmoy
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I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in which the state…
— Sulak Sivaraksa
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In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts.
— Michael Ondaatje
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When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to tell me what…
— Lisa Ling
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I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there;…
— Paul Walker
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Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re…
— Randall Munroe
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A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and…
— Alexander Cockburn
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I realised in Sri Lanka that my dream of playing in a World Cup was a bridge too far,
— Jacques Kallis
Who Wrote These Sri Lanka Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 46 Sri Lanka Quotes as follows: