India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of in sanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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 form, would be hypocrisy and an attempt to delude ourselves and others.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represent determination the way you play it is free will.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represent determinism the way you play it is free will.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

— Jawaharlal Nehru