Top 29 Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes



There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

 

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.

 

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 fanciesthat have moulded them

 

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit

 

She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed , and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously.

 

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

 

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.

 

You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

 

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

 

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.

 

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

 

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

 

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

 

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

 

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

 

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

 

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

 

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

 

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

 

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

 

You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism the way you play it is free will.

 

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

 

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

 

 

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