Quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.

In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.

If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

Let your life be your message.

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.

Live like Jesus did, and the world will listen.

You cannot succeed in one department of life while cheating on another, life is an indivisible whole.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.