Quotation:
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."
More quotes from: Mohandas Gandhi
- "A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to ..."
- "A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level ..."
- "A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. "
- "A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is ..."
- "A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. "
- "A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of ..."
- "A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. "
- "A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good ..."
- "A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise ..."
- "A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve ..."
- "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can ..."
- "A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of ..."
- "Action expresses priorities. "
- "Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. "
- "Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. "
- "All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and ..."
- "All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim ..."
- "Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying ..."
- "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the ..."
- "An eye for an eye makes us all blind. "
- "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. "
- "An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect ..."
- "An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. "
- "An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more ..."
- "Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. "
- "Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will ..."
- "As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the ..."
- "Be the change that you want to see in the world. "
- "Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but ..."
- "Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle. "
- "Between husband and wife there should be no secrets from one another. I have a ..."
- "Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the ..."
- "Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth. "
- "But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac. "
- "Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital ..."
- "Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. "
- "Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the ..."
- "Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate ..."
- "Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain ..."
- "Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. "
- "Democracy must in essence, therefore, mean the art and science of mobilising the entire physical, ..."
- "Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to ..."
- "Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says 'Do this.' "
- "Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must ..."
- "Each one prays to God according to his own light. "
- "Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come ..."
- "Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth. "
- "Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the ..."
- "Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just ..."
- "Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith ..."
- "Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone. "
- "Evil is, good or truth misplaced. "
- "Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. "
- "Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies. "
- "Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. ..."
- "Fear has its use but cowardice has none. "
- "Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour ..."
- "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you ..."
- "For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion. "
- "Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would ..."
- "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. "
- "Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. "
- "Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it. "
- "God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be ..."
- "God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless. "
- "God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so ..."
- "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in ..."
- "Hatred ever kills, love never dies such is the vast difference between the two. What ..."
- "Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress. "
- "Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. "
- "Human society is a ceaseless growth, an unfoldment in terms of spirituality. "
- "I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood ..."
- "I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared ..."
- "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. "
- "I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. "
- "I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed. "
- "I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called ..."
- "I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, ..."
- "I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. ..."
- "I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not ..."
- "I claim to be no more than an average person with less than average ability. ..."
- "I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a ..."
- "I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my ..."
- "I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of ..."
- "I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is ..."
- "I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be often upset by ..."
- "I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and ..."
- "I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve ..."
- "I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice. "
- "I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot ..."
- "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike ..."
- "I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't ..."
- "I may live without air and water, but not without Him. You may pluck out ..."
- "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only ..."
- "I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict ..."
- "I saw that nations like individuals could only be made through the agony of the ..."
- "I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with ..."
- "I want to see India free in my life-time. But God may not consider me ..."
- "I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become ..."
- "I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am ..."
- "I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based ..."
- "If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally ..."
- "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. "
- "If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us ..."
- "If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a ..."
- "If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to ..."
- "Imitation is the sincerest flattery. "
- "In a gentle way, you can shake the world. "
- "In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. "
- "In nature there is fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. ..."
- "In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a ..."
- "In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and ..."
- "Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way ..."
- "Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before ..."
- "Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. ..."
- "Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything ..."
- "Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man ..."
- "Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. "
- "Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a ..."
- "Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should ..."
- "It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by ..."
- "It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then ..."
- "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to ..."
- "It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one ..."
- "It is easy enough to say, 'I do not believe in God.' For God permits ..."
- "It is foolish to think that by fleeing one can trick the dread god of ..."
- "It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may. We ..."
- "It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. "
- "It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion ..."
- "It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, ruled us ..."
- "It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. "
- "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to ..."
- "It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble ..."
- "Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, ..."
- "Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. "
- "Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something ..."
- "Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on ..."
- "Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let ..."
- "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live ..."
- "Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself. "
- "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of ..."
- "Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which ..."
- "Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the ..."
- "Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands ..."
- "Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep. "
- "Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the ..."
- "Manliness consists in making circumstances subserve to ourselves. "
- "Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after ..."
- "Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do ..."
- "Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes ..."
- "Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. "
- "Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to ..."
- "Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is ..."
- "My life is my message. "
- "My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the ..."
- "Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do ..."
- "No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. "
- "No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive ..."
- "No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long ..."
- "Nobody can hurt me without my permission. "
- "Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. "
- "Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another. "
- "Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat ..."
- "Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat ..."
- "Non-violence is the article of faith. "
- "Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the ..."
- "Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man. "
- "Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the ..."
- "One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no ..."
- "Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear ..."
- "Peace is its own reward. "
- "Poverty is the worst form of violence. "
- "Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the ..."
- "Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. "
- "Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the ..."
- "Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission ..."
- "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. "
- "Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive. "
- "Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. "
- "Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's ..."
- "Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every ..."
- "Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. "
- "Self-respect knows no considerations. "
- "Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all ..."
- "Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body ..."
- "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. "
- "Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy. "
- "Suffering has its well-defined limits. Suffering can be both wise and unwise, and when the ..."
- "Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' ..."
- "That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake. "
- "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. "
- "The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice ..."
- "The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different. "
- "The good man is the friend of all living things. "
- "The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. "
- "The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small ..."
- "The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. "
- "The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the ..."
- "The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul ..."
- "The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. "
- "The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. "
- "The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent. "
- "The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity. "
- "The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of ..."
- "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. "
- "The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of ..."
- "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except ..."
- "There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of ..."
- "There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. "
- "There is more to life than increasing its speed. "
- "There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of ..."
- "There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. "
- "There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith ..."
- "There should be truth in thought, truth in speech, and truth in action. To the ..."
- "Those who know how to think need no teachers. "
- "Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion ..."
- "Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same ..."
- "To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. "
- "To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the ..."
- "To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a ..."
- "To me art in order to be truly great must, like the beauty of Nature, ..."
- "Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that ..."
- "Truth never damages a cause that is just. "
- "Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. "
- "Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a ..."
- "Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. "
- "Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and ..."
- "Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die ..."
- "We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We ..."
- "We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the ..."
- "We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. ..."
- "We must become the change we want to see in the world. "
- "We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take ..."
- "We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party. "
- "What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the ..."
- "What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good ..."
- "What is true of the individual will be to-morrow true of the whole nation if ..."
- "Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you ..."
- "When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my ..."
- "When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love ..."
- "When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. "
- "Where love is, there God is also. "
- "Where there is love there is life. "
- "Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right ..."
- "You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but ..."
- "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop ..."
- "You must be the change you wish to see in the world. "
- "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops ..."


