Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya Quotes

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Self-examination not moral or spiritual, but secular - that is, a survey and analysis of local conditions in India and a comparative study of the same with those in other parts of the globe.

Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya
The Indian mind needs to be familarised with the principles of modern progress, a universal impulse for enquiry and enterprise awakened, and earnest thinking and effort promoted. A new type of Indian citizenship purposeful, progressive and self-respecting should be created, and self-reliant nationhood developed.

Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya
Progress in every country depends mainly on the education of its people. Without education, we are a nation of children. The difference between one man and another, apart from birth and social position, consists in the extent of knowledge, general and practical, acquired by him. We may safely assume that man in all countries within certain limits start with the same degree of intelligence. A civilised nation is distinguished from an uncivilised one by the extent of its acquired intelligence and skill.

Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya
Mental energy is wasted in caste disputes and village factions.

Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya
In our warm climate, we have not got the same incentive to exertion and we may never be able to attain the same level of prosperity as Western people.

Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya
The nationality of our people rests on a religious and fatalistic basis, not on an economic basis, as in the West. There are still people among us who believe the golden age was in the past. We are devoted to the past ideals although, out of necessity or prospect of personal gain, we have partly taken to Western methods of work and business. There is a yearning for the old ideals and a halfhearted acquiescence in the new, on the whole, the genius of the people is for standing still.

Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya
If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya