Troubling to Think

Jawaharlal Nehru on thinking

Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India. The full quotation is “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.” I do not agree with the second half of that statement, so I only used the first part and left it as a wry commentary on people and thinking. A politician mi...