Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

Literacy in itself is no education.

Education without courage is like a wax statue - beautiful to look at but bound to melt at the first touch of a hot stuff.

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women.

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting.

The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.

Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change.

My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.