Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Principles ... become modified in practice, by facts.

I'm always the "less is more" guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I'm still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time.

There is such a difference between life and theory.

Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

Theorists can be wrong; only nature is always right.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy.

What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.

We need realism to deal with reality.

You've got to be realistic.

Facts are better than dreams.

Become reality driven. Don’t kid yourself or others.

One pursues economic theory in too extreme an extent he is likely to be in trouble; you have to consider the reality and blend what you observe as reality with an ingredient of theory, and a little, just a little bit ahead of the time, then you are likely to succeed.

On Pragmatism: It's all very well in theory but it doesn't work in practice