Words worth keeping
126 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.
काल करे सो आज कर, आज करे सो अब। पल में प्रलय होएगी, बहुरि करेगा कब।
निंदक नियरे राखिए, आँगन कुटी छवाय। बिन पानी साबुन बिना, निर्मल करे सुभाय।
तू कहता कागज की लेखी, मैं कहता आँखिन की देखी।
चाह गई चिंता मिटी, मनुआ बेपरवाह। जिनको कछु नहिं चाहिए, वे साहन के साह।
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
We learn from failure, not from success!
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.