Swami Vivekananda Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: January 12, 1863 - July 4, 1902
Birthday: January 12
Death: July 4
Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward.
source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.920, Manonmani Publishers
topic: Rain, Book, Reading, Onward And Upward
