For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it’s great books, the “Upnishads,” and the “Bhagavad Gita.”
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUTo be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
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America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
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In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.
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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
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Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors’ version is given prominence and holds the field.
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You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
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People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it
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I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
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No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress.
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The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
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The light has gone out of our lives.Yet I am wrong, for the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. and a thousand years later that light will still be seen in this country and the world will see it. For that light represented the living truth.
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Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.
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