Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

1. Unless your education is founded on truth, good character and purity of life, it is nothing worth. It will be like a house built on sand.
    
2. 'Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
    
3. He who is steadfast in meditation becomes firm and clear.
    
4. There is a great deal of truth in the saying that man becomes what he eats. The grosser the food, the grosser the body.
    
5. Evil has no separate existence at all; it is only good or truth misplaced.
    
6. "I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?
   Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away." (Note - This was the one of the last notes left behind by Gandhi in 1948, expressing his deepest social thought).
    
7. Experience is the biggest of all schools.
    
8. We should never return blow for blow. Forgiveness is the ornament of the strong.
    
9. Uncleanliness of the mind is far more dangerous than that of the body. The latter, however, is an indication of the former.
    
10. All will be well with us if, even in the hour of our travail, we are able to realize the presence of God within us.
     
11. Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost centre in us all, where Truth abides in fullness. Every wrong-doer knows within himself that he is doing wrong for untruth cannot be mistaken for Truth. The law of Truth is merely understood to mean that we must speak the truth. But we understand the word in much wider sense. There should be Truth in thought, Truth in speech, and Truth in action.
     
12. Great men never die, and it is up to us to keep them immortal by continuing the work they have commenced.