Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

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.

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.

One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God.

A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident.

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase.

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.

My commitment is to truth not consistency.

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.

The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.

Truth triumphs, even if there be no public support.

I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God.

Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature.