Quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru

“There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

“I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me after my death. I do not believe in such ceremonies, and to submit to them, even as a matter of f...”

“Our lives are encumbered with the dead wood of this past; all that is dead and has served its purpose has to go. But that does not mean a break with, or a forgetting of, the vital and life-giving i...”

“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 fanciesthat ha...”

“It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a r...”

“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit”

“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...”

“The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have frequently condemned it and wished to make a clean sweep of...”

“India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passionand abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over ...”

“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.”

“Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.”

“You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.”

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

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

“The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.”

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism the way you play it is free will. ”

“Ignorance is always afraid of change.”

“I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.”

“The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.”

“She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed , and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously.”