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Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

Where love is, there God is also.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on ones opponent.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.