Top 72 Quotes On Truth By Gandhi
#1. Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appeared to be different truths are like the countless and apparently different leaves of the same tree.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.
Mahatma Gandhi
#5. Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. The truth should not be contingent, but it should be coherent.
Debasish Mridha
#7. It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#9. Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.
Mahatma Gandhi
#15. The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength.
Mahatma Gandhi
#17. I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.
Albert Einstein
#18. Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#23. Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. I saw that a man of truth must also be a man of care.
Mahatma Gandhi
#30. Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help ...
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.
Mahatma Gandhi
#35. The truth is to be found nowhere else other than within ourselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
#36. When you surrender completely to God, as the only truth worth having, you find yourself in service of all that exists. It becomes your joy and recreation. You never tire of serving others.
Mahatma Gandhi
#37. Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.
Mahatma Gandhi
#41. The attainment of national independence is to me a search for truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#42. What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#43. In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.
Mahatma Gandhi
#45. Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#46. The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. If one is not a meditator, howsoever good one is it is all useless.
Osho
#48. In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#49. I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.
Mahatma Gandhi
#50. All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error.
Mahatma Gandhi
#51. Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our clenched fist, but must hold it in our open palm and invite others to see it for themselves.
Mahatma Gandhi
#53. All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. Hinduism is a living organism. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. Knowledge is limitless and so also the application of truth. Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so.
Mahatma Gandhi
#55. I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.
Mahatma Gandhi
#56. The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium.
Mahatma Gandhi
#57. Truth resides in every human heart,
and one has to search for it there,
and to be guided by truth as one sees it.
But no one has a right to coerce others
to act according to his own view of truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#58. A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.
Mahatma Gandhi
#59. A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.
Mahatma Gandhi
#61. One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#62. Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#63. It is an ever-growing belief with me that truth cannot be found by violent means.
Mahatma Gandhi
#64. An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#65. Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.
Mahatma Gandhi
#67. My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#68. Conquer the heart of the enemy with truth and love, not by violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#69. Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#70. The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day.
Mahatma Gandhi
#72. The old and simple truth that it is natural for men to help and to love one another, but not to torture and to kill one another, became ever clearer, so that fewer and fewer people were able to believe the sophistries by which the distortion of the truth had been made so plausible.
Mahatma Gandhi
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