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

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

Mahatma Gandhi
Education, Perseverance, Teaching
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

Mahatma Gandhi
Suffering, Doe, Knows
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.175, Rajpal & Sons

That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Religion, Earth, Faces
Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.

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Disappointment, Joy, Doubt

It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.

Mahatma Gandhi
India, Absolutes
Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Honesty, Believe
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
Reality, Shields, Shyness
Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.55, Courier Corporation

To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value.

Mahatma Gandhi
Practice, Matter, Mundane
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.88, Hackett Publishing

It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural.

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Way, Natural, Dangerous

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

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Violence, Harbour, Nonviolence

The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.

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World, Growing, Today
Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

Mahatma Gandhi
Truth, Law, Violence

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

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Arab Israeli Conflict, France, England
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.91, Courier Corporation

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

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Mean, Power, Political
Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.163, Vintage

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

Mahatma Gandhi
Life, Giving, Grace

External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.

Mahatma Gandhi
Fear, Traitor, Accord
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.49, Courier Corporation

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Mahatma Gandhi
Inspirational, Peace, Interesting
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.15, Courier Corporation

I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

Mahatma Gandhi
Believe, Yarn, Broken
Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.

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Dark, Doctors, Medicine

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

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Impossible, Ahimsa, Intertwined
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.226, Tara Publishing

Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.

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Mean, Legs, Spinning
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees.

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Order, Evil, Decree
"Non-Violent Resistance". Book by Mahatma Gandhi, Courier Corporation, p. 238, 2012.

A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy.

Mahatma Gandhi
Dream, Party, Thinking
Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.145, Hackett Publishing

A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

Mahatma Gandhi
Country, Home, Self
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

A civilization based on nonviolence must be different from that organized for violence.

Mahatma Gandhi
Civilization, Different, Violence