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Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

Former Prime Minister of India

Jawaharlal Nehru served as the first Prime Minister of India from 1947 to 1964. A prominent leader in the Indian independence movement, he played a pivotal role in shaping the new nation's political and social landscape. Nehru was a philosopher, writer, and lawyer, and his vision for a secular, democratic, and modern India continues to influence the country's development.

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Famous Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

“I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.”

Thinking Names Animal Compassion Sacrifice Degrade

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things.”

Thinking Trying Years Has Beens Important Opportunity Discipline Prison Sensations

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.”

Thinking Force Process Trouble Advantage Crisis Conclusion Uncomfortable Troublesome

Book:Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal

Source: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal

“Slogans are apt to petrify man's thinking ... every slogan, every word almost, that is used by the socialist, the communist, the capitalist. People hardly think nowadays. They throwT words at each other.”

People Thinking Men Used Communist Capitalist Socialist Slogans

Author: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."”

Thinking World Firsts Book First Time Ritual Other Worlds Great Book Gita Estimation Hindu Religion

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.”

People Thinking Love Life Matter Success Friendship

Book:Speeches

Source: Speeches

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

Thinking May Littles Truth Humble Be Humble

Book:An Anthology

Source: An Anthology

“A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.”

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Book:Jawaharlal Nehru, an autobiography: with musings on recent events in India

Source: Jawaharlal Nehru, an autobiography: with musings on recent events in India

“Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.”

Thinking Force Advantage Crisis Pandit

Book:Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal

Source: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal

“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 people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.”

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Book:An Anthology

Source: An Anthology