“It is difficult for most of us to think of our ideals and our theories in terms of reality.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru, Soviet Russia: Some Random Sketches and Impressions (1949)

About Jawaharlal Nehru

1889 – 1964

First Prime Minister of independent India.

“The past is over and it is the future that beckons to us now.”

“Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.”

“The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye.”

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”

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“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”