Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru; 14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence. He emerged as the paramount leader of the Indian independence movement under the tutelage of Mahatma Gandhi and ruled India from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death in 1964. He is considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation-state: a sovereign, socialist, secular, and democratic republic...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth14 November 1889
CityAllahabad, India
CountryIndia
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
What is history, indeed, but a record of change?
I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
...that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.
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 fancies that have moulded them
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.