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. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share
“Without that passion and urge, there is a gradual oozing out of hope and vitality, a settling down on lower levels of existence, a… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
What we really are matters more than what other people think of us. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Success comes to those who dare and act; it seldom goes to the timid. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I do not attach much importance to America's bombs. I attach importance to her great vitality and integrity. The strength of America is deeper… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
At the dawn of history India started on her unending quest, and trackless centuries are filled with her striving and the grandeur of her… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
It is far better to know our own weaknesses and failures than to point out those of others. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
