Pandit Quotes

• He is a pandit (man of knowledge) who speaks what is suitable to the occasion, who renders loving service according to his ability, and who knows the limits of his anger.

  Chanakya

  Men, Limits, Speak

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

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Likes, Facts, Disappear

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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• Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation into the life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Life, Education, Truth

  "The Evolution of India".

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• Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Freedom, Understanding, Democracy

  The New York Times, January 15, 1961; later quoted in Jacob Morton Braude "Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia" (p. 173), 1962.

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• The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Wisdom, Learning, School

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Jawaharlal Nehru's Speeches”

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• Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Long, Giving

  Jawaharlal Nehru (2003). “The Essential Writings of Jawaharlal Nehru”

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• A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Leadership, Men, Thinking

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1962). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an Autobiography: With Musings on Recent Events in India”

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• It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Advice, Trying, Suggestions

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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• Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Thinking, Advantage, Force

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”

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• Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.

  Chanakya

  Grief, Giving, Wife

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• God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit. "Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls." "They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in. "While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people.

  Yann Martel

  Christian, Strong, Men

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.75, Vintage Canada

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• This is the mission of every Christian: lumina pandit - to spread the light and to tell the world of God's love.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Light, World

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• Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers.

  Bernard Holland

  Europe, America, Given

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