Mahatma Gandhi - Truth Quotes

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

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The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.

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He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

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Old as I am in age, I have no feeling that I have ceased to grow inwardly or that my growth will stop at the dissolution of the flesh. What I am concerned with is my readiness to obey the call of Truth, my God, from moment to moment, no matter how inconsistent it may appear. My commitment is to Truth, not to consistency.

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Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

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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.

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God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

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I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.

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In judging myself I shall try to be as harsh as truth, as I want others also to be. Measuring myself by that standard I must exclaim with Surdas: ' Where is there a wretch So wicked and loathsome as I? I have forsaken my Maker, So faithless have I been.' For it is an unbroken torture to me that I am still so far from him, who, as I fully know, governs every breath of my life, and whose offspring I am. I know that it is the evil passions within that keep me so far from Him, and yet I cannot get away from them.

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If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.

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My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.

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

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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.

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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…

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A seeker after Truth cannot afford to indulge in generalisation. Darwin for the greater part of his book Origin of the Species [sic] has simply massed fact upon fact without any theorising, and only towards the end has formulated his conclusion which, because of the sheer weight of testimony behind it, becomes almost irresistible. Yes I have criticised even Darwin's generalisation as being unwarranted. Science tells us that a proposition may hold good in nine hundred ninety-nine cases and yet fail in the thousandth case and thus be rendered untenable as a universal statement.

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To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

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Truth, purity, self-control, firmness, fearlessness, humility, unity, peace, and renunciation - these are the inherent qualities of a civil resister.

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The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see Truth in fragment and from different points of vision.

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I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

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

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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.

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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained.

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Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

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But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

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If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: Search after truth through non-violent means. A man may not believe in God and still call himself a Hindu. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth... Hinduism is the religion of truth. Truth is God. Denial of God we have known. Denial of truth we have not known.

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The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

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

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

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Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together

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I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.

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