3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

... when all violence subsides in the human heart, the state which remains is love. It is not something we have to acquire; it is always present, and needs only to be uncovered. This is our real nature, not merely to love one person here, another there, but to be love itself.

Where love is, there God is also.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.

A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.