1,842 Quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

Never say, ‘No’, never say, ‘I cannot’, for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty

Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies.

The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.

We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes.

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.

The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols."

Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind.

Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature.