Quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru

About Jawaharlal Nehru:

Jawaharlal Nehru is considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation-state: a sovereign, socialist, secular, and democratic republic. During his lifetime, he was popularly known as Pandit Nehru ("Scholar Nehru") or as Panditji ("Respected Scholar"), while many Indian children knew him as "Uncle Nehru" (Chacha Nehru).
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and a...

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many peo...

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

Great causes and little men go ill together.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

Author Bio

  • NameJawaharlal Nehru
  • DescriptionIndian Lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister of India
  • AliasesPanditji
  • BornNovember 14, 1889
  • DiedMay 27, 1964
  • CountryBritish Raj; India
  • ProfessionLawyer; Statesman; Writer; Politician; Philosopher; Autobiographer
  • AwardsBharat Ratna