Mohandas Gandhi Quotes on Truth (17 Quotes)

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

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.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

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

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

True religion is not a narrow dogma. It is not external observance. It is faith in God and living in the presence of God. It means faith in a future life, in truth and Ahimsa. There prevails today a sort of apathy towards these things of the Spirit.

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.

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

I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be often upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, no matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better then anticipated.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.