The future has to be lived before it can be written about.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRUHistory is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.
More Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
-
-
To be successful in life what you need is education.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
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 NEHRU -
You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
America is a country no one should go to for the first time.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
Great causes and little men go ill together.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
Please remember that law and sense are not always the same.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
Most things, except agriculture, can wait.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
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 -
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.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU -
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU