Pandit Quotes:

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

- Bernard Holland

topic: Europe, America, Pandit

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

topic: Men, Limits, Speak, Pandit

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

- Jawaharlal Nehru

topic: Life, Motivational, Inspiring, Coincidence In Life, Life And Destiny

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

- Jawaharlal Nehru

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

topic: Likes, Facts, Disappear, Pandit

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

source: "The Evolution of India".

topic: Life, Education, Truth, Initiation, Inspirational Education

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

- Jawaharlal Nehru

topic: Freedom, Understanding, Democracy, Pandit

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

- Jawaharlal Nehru

topic: Wisdom, Learning, School, Taking Risks, Be Cautious

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

- Jawaharlal Nehru

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

topic: Inspirational, Long, Giving, Right Action, Pandit

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

topic: Leadership, Men, Thinking, Instinct Intuition, Hunches

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

- Jawaharlal Nehru

topic: Advice, Trying, Suggestions, Pandit, Natural Consequences

Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

- Jawaharlal Nehru

source: 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”

topic: Thinking, Trouble, Advantage, Troublesome, Pandit

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

topic: Grief, Giving, Wife, Pandit

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

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

topic: Christian, Strong, Men, Causing Trouble, Pandit

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

- Pope Francis

topic: Christian, Light, World, Pandit