Gandhi Quotes

“Great men never look at a person’s exterior. They think of his heart.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“Prayer needs no speech. It is itself independent of any sensuous effort. I”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“A clean confession, combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance. I”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“There are some things which are known only to oneself and one's maker. These are clearly incommunicable.”
― M K Gandhi, My Experiments With Truth

“There are some actions from which an escape is a godsend both for the man who escapes and for those about him. Man, as soon as he gets back his consciousness of right, is thankful to the Divine mercy for the escape.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments With Truth

“Spiritual relationship is far more precious than Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments With Truth

“A devotee of Truth may not do anything in deference to convention. He must always hold himself open to correction, and whenever he discovers himself to be wrong he must confess it at all costs and atone for it. Chapter”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments With Truth

“All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments With Truth

“The law of Karma is inexorable and impossible of evasion. There is thus hardly any need for God to interfere. He laid down the law and, as it were, retired. After”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments With Truth

“It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments With Truth

“You civilised fellows are all cowards. Great men never look at a person’s exterior. They think of his heart.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“I realized that it was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it. And since then, whenever I have heard of someone threatening to commit suicide, it has had little or no effect on me.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

“For it is an unbroken torture to me that I am still so far from Him, who, as I fully know, governs every breath of my life, and whose offspring I am. I know that it is the evil passions within that keep me so far from Him, and yet I cannot get away from them. But I must close. I can only take up the actual story in the next chapter.   M.K. Gandhi The Ashram, Sabarmati, Ahmedabad 26th November, 1925”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be often upset by God, but at the same time where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, no matter how a man’s plans are frustrated, the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated. The”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“But I could not for the life of me find out a new name, and therefore offered a nominal prize through Indian Opinion to the reader who made the best suggestion on the subject. As a result Maganlal Gandhi coined the word Sadagraha (Sat: truth, Agraha: firmness) and won the prize. But in order to make it clearer I changed the word to Satyagraha which has since become current in Gujarati as a designation for the struggle.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with Truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments; it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography. But”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“Identification with everything that lives is impossible without self-purification; without self-purification the observance of the law of Ahimsa must remain an empty dream. God can never be realised by one who is not pure of heart. Self-purification therefore must mean purification in all the walks of life. And purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one’s surroundings.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“what is possible for one is possible for all,”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth

“But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep; no effort that you may make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep. That”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“seekers after”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“Hate the sin and not the sinner”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“men in charge. The man complained of will not be there tomorrow, and you will have a seat with the other passengers.’ This somewhat relieved me. I had, of course, no intention of proceeding against the man who had assaulted me, and so the chapter of the assault closed there. In the morning Isa Sheth’s man took me to the coach, I got a good seat and reached Johannesburg quite safely that night. Standerton is a small village and Johannesburg a big city. Abdulla Sheth had wired to Johannesburg also, and given me the name and address of Muhammad Kasam Kamruddin’s firm there. Their man had come to receive me at the stage, but neither did I see him nor did he recognize me. So I decided to go to a hotel. I knew the names”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“For it is an unbroken torture to me that I am still so far from Him, who, as I fully know, governs every breath of my life, and whose offspring I am. I know that it is the evil passions within that keep me so far from Him, and yet I cannot get away from them.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“There are some actions from which an escape is a godsend both for the man who escapes and for those about him. Man, as soon as he gets back his consciousness of right, is thankful to the Divine mercy for the escape. As we know that a man often succumbs to temptation, however much he say resist it, we also know that Providence often intercedes and saves him in spite of himself. How all this happens—how far a man is free and how far a creature of circumstances—how far free-will comes into play and where fate enters on the scene—all this is a mystery and will remain a mystery.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“Renunciation without aversion is not lasting.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“religion is morality.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“We labour under a sort of superstition that the child has nothing to learn during the first five years of its life. On the contrary the fact is that the child never learns in after-life what it does in its first five years.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“I am of opinion that all exclusive intimacies are to be avoided; for man takes in vice far more readily than virtue. And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“Whatever a man sows, that shall he reap.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

“Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi