3,410 Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.

What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.

The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.

Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest.

It was Ba's inspiration which helped me reach the heights of my inner self. She was my priceless jewel.

Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.

I do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating.

Because no one sees the truth does not make it untrue.