197 Quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru

Play the hand you're dealt.

The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.

If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly that it is the Samskrit language and literature and all that it contains. This is a magnificent inheritance and so long as this endures and influences the life of our people, so long will the basic genius of India continue. If our race forgot the Buddha, the Upanishads and the great epics (Ramayana and Mahabharata), India would cease to be India .

Theoretical approaches have their place and are, I suppose, essential but a theory must be tempered with reality.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit.

America is a country no one should go to for the first time.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.

Most things, except agriculture, can wait.