Mahatma Gandhi Quotes about Ignorance

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

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

Truth, Honesty, Ignorance

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.70, Courier Corporation

Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters.

Mahatma Gandhi

Teaching, Ignorance, Poor

Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”

The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ignorance, Animal, Reptiles

Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ignorance, Giving, Honest

Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ignorance, Simple, Hug

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

Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.

Mahatma Gandhi

Country, Dog, Ignorance

Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ignorance, Law, Atoms

Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.47, North Atlantic Books

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Heart, Ignorance

Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.178, Vintage