Quotes from Jawaharlal Nehru

Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.

It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The basic fact of today is the tremendous.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination; the way you play it is free will.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women.

...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them