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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

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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 Quotes

“Great causes and little men go ill together.”

“The future has to be lived before it can be written about.”

“Restraint does not mean weakness. It does not mean giving in.”

“It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.”

“What is history, indeed, but a record of change?”

“It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.”

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

“I have always thought that the best way to find out what is right and what is not right, what should be done and what should not be done, is not to give a sermon, but to talk and discuss, and out of discussion sometimes a little bit of truth comes out.”

“Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.”