The story of my experiments with truth: An Autobiography

by Mahatma Gandhi

I claim for them nothing more than does a scientist who, though he conducts his experiments with the utmost accuracy, forethought and minuteness, never claims any finality about his conclusions, but keeps an open mind regarding them.

But as long as I have not realized this Absolute Truth, so long must I hold by the relative truth as I have conceived it.

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

A reformer cannot afford to have close intimacy with him whom he seeks to reform.