Source: Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953
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Famous Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes
Source: India's Spokesman: From Speeches and Addresses
“Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.”
Source: An Anthology
“It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.”
Source: Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953
“Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.”
Source: Jawaharlal Nehru, an autobiography: with musings on recent events in India
“Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.”
Source: Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953
“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.”
Source: Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches
“Every little thing counts in a crisis.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.”
“Citizenship consists in the service of the country.”
Source: Speeches
“Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.”
“It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.”
Source: Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects
“Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.”
“Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.”
Source: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal
“The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.”
Source: Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects
“Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India
Source: Jawaharlal Nehru on Community Development and Panchayati Raj
“I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.”
Source: Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography : with Musings on Recent Events in India
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.”
Source: Sept. 1964-May 1949
“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.”
Source: Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches
Source: Speeches
“The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.”
“Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.”
Source: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal
“There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.”
Source: Proceedings of the International Seminar on Science, Technology, and Society in Developing Countries, Bombay, November 1979
Source: The Quintessence of Nehru
Source: An Anthology
Source: An Anthology
“It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others.”
Source: India's foreign policy: selected speeches, September 1946-April 1961
“The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.”
Source: Congressmen's Primer for Socialism
Source: India's quest: being letters on Indian history from 'Glimpses of world history.'
Source: Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects
Source: Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Nehru: Being a Treasury of Twelve Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thoughts of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.”
Source: Nehru on Gandhi