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Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya Quotes

1860–1962 India

Mokshagundam Vishveshwariah (15 September 1860 – 14 April 1962), popularly known as "Sir MV", was a pre-eminent civil engineer and scholar. He was also a renowned statesman occupying the prestigious post of Diwan of Mysore (Chief Minister of Mysore) in the princely state of Mysore from 1912 to 1918.

India

Also known as: M. Visvesvaraya

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Mental energy is wasted in caste disputes and village factions.

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.

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.

It is better to work out than rust out.

If you feel that by giving this title, I will praise your government, you will be disappointed. I am a fact finding man.

I walked my way to good health

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.